I'm not sure how what you wrote would refute my premise that Perl is inconsistent or even why the concept of code that "works" is so bemusing to you it needs to be quoted but I do know that perl -e "require POSIX; print POSIX::strftime('%T', gmtime)" would suggest we're both wrong. Was planning to point out you don't even need to require or use POSIX to call strftime but after more investigating it appears that if you use Tie::File 3 dependencies away in an unrelated module you'll be able call POSIX::strftime anywhere else in your program, even when compiling a module that has no relation to either. But the important thing is Perl disables variable aliasing to prevent inscrutable bugs from cropping up in unrelated parts of the program right?

In reply to Re^4: What's so wrong with this (dereferencing)code? by Maelstrom
in thread What's so wrong with this (dereferencing)code? by Maelstrom

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