so- let me make sure I'm getting all of this. Perl is alot to learn all at once... :)
1) just curious, but does $0 == 'foo' on unix? that is to say will 'foo' will open the source file? or is that just a dummy var because unix doesn't have that capability?
2) I take it that perl doesn't require parens, so open J, $k == open(J, $k); I also infer from what you said (and wrote) that no parens is the norm for built in calls, but use parens for user defined function calls.
EDIT: Reading your post again, its terribly obvious that perl doesnt require parens, it's so obvious mostly because you said so, in smallish black print... so yah, question answered. mostly. /EDIT
3) I like the sound of the Just($another x) calls, the repitition makes that final line of $Perl . $hacker work even better than before.

Hopefully my newb isn't showing too much. But I definitely learned something. Thanks!

~~Joe

In reply to Re^2: My Second, first japh by jfredett
in thread My Second, first japh by jfredett

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