Re: Indirected Japh

++educational (for me, anyway)

man perlobj
/Indirect Object Syntax
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so print STDERR is really STDERR->print? Wow.

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Re^2: Indirected Japh by Pragma (Scribe) on Sep 02, 2004 at 03:18 UTC
Well, almost. STDERR is a filehandle, so direct method invocation syntax is not available to STDERR. While the `print FILEHANDLE` syntax looks like indirect object syntax, it is really just its own special case. Filehandles are not blessed object references (excepting IO::Handle objects), so you cannot invoke any methods on them.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Indirected Japh by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 05, 2004 at 00:16 UTC
...direct method invocation syntax is not available to STDERR. This works for me: `use IO::Handle; STDERR->print("Hello world\n");` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Indirected Japh by Pragma (Scribe) on Sep 05, 2004 at 00:21 UTC
Which is why I said: ... (excepting IO::Handle objects)	[reply]