The equivalent code shows using what appears to me to be Perl's two-arg open. It's open(ARGV, $ARGV), and (consulting my fingers to double check) that seems to be, erm, two arguments. Yet you say you expect that particular one use of two-arg open to not be magical for just what reason?

If that were not the case then I'd expect an explicit notation that the normal two-arg open magicalness wasn't enabled since that would be different from the normal behavior of two-arg open anywhere else. As no expectation was given to the contrary, being shown that "This works like this snippet in which there's a two-arg open" leads to the reasonable expectation that filenames passed through this construct will behave just like filenames passed to two-arg open. Again, it's doing just what the diagram on the tin shows.

The same equivalent-for-<> code's been used back at least as far as the fourteen year old 4.0.36 manpage (back when all there was was two-arg open and you had to carry globrefs uphill both ways in the snow . . .) showing calling two-arg open identical to the code from the 2nd edition camel already shown.

To expect <>'s file opening not to behave as two-arg open and claim it's not documented as doing so doesn't match up.

And again: while I agree it would sane and safer to change the default, I can see why the no-backwards-compatibility-breaking-changes p5p decision was against removing 14+-year-old documented behavior.

At any rate we're way off into #386 territory here so . . .

The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.
The cake is a lie.

In reply to Re^7: magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! (dock) by Fletch
in thread magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! by repellent

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