Re^3: Problem with Perl editors.

I've seen moronic situations where $| gets set to -1

Huh?!? I would be curious to know how to do so, since AFAIK it is not actually possible:

$ perl -le 'print $|=-1'
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Re^4: Problem with Perl editors. by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Jul 07, 2005 at 18:54 UTC
You may wish to read my response to Corion. I recall an app where $\|-- was called twice, and when I `print`ed the value of $\| while debugging, I showed '-1' as its value. This was a long time ago, and perhaps was something unique about the environment -- I had assumed all this time that it was normal Perl behavior, but it appears I'm wrong. Larry Wall is Yoda: there is no `try{}` The Code that can be seen is not the true Code	[reply]

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Re^4: Problem with Perl editors.
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Jul 07, 2005 at 18:54 UTC

You may wish to read my response to Corion. I recall an app where $|-- was called twice, and when I printed the value of $| while debugging, I showed '-1' as its value. This was a long time ago, and perhaps was something unique about the environment -- I had assumed all this time that it was normal Perl behavior, but it appears I'm wrong.

Larry Wall is Yoda: there is no try{}
The Code that can be seen is not the true Code

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