Re^3: sub STDERR { *STDERR } -- nearly works !

I read that as saying you shouldn't compound the potential action-at-a-distance evil of having a package variable by allowing it to be referred to in other packages yet not qualified with the original package.

Which doesn't really apply to something exported from what sounds like a utility package intended to provide a "global" variable.

But since all packages share the same global $STDERR anyway, trying to export it is indeed a bad thing.

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Re^4: sub STDERR { *STDERR } -- nearly works ! by gone2015 (Deacon) on Apr 09, 2008 at 10:32 UTC
Ah. It looked like one of those "between you and me it's a miracle this works, and sometimes it doesn't" sort of warnings ! Documentation http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html says "In addition, when unqualified, the identifiers STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, ARGVOUT, ENV, INC, and SIG are forced to be in package main , even when used for other purposes than their built-in ones." But, it is now clear that I should have understood "unqualified" to mean "unqualified by a package name" (not "unqualified by any 'decoration'" -- doh!) So I'll go away and stop worrying about it ! I don't need the export, and even if I did, it would be OK. Thank you.	[reply]

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Re^4: sub STDERR { *STDERR } -- nearly works !
by gone2015 (Deacon) on Apr 09, 2008 at 10:32 UTC

Ah. It looked like one of those "between you and me it's a miracle this works, and sometimes it doesn't" sort of warnings !

Documentation http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html says "In addition, when unqualified, the identifiers STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, ARGVOUT, ENV, INC, and SIG are forced to be in package main , even when used for other purposes than their built-in ones."

But, it is now clear that I should have understood "unqualified" to mean "unqualified by a package name" (not "unqualified by any 'decoration'" -- doh!)

So I'll go away and stop worrying about it ! I don't need the export, and even if I did, it would be OK.

Thank you.

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