in reply to Re: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).
in thread Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).

Well, when -$! is not the same as 0-$! then I'd say that it's open to discussion. ;)
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Re^3: Different behaviour of 'stat' function after assignment to $! (errno).
by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on May 24, 2011 at 16:38 UTC
    I was addressing assigning to it as being the main issue, but I wouldn't negate it either as a general rule, because it certainly doesn't have to be numeric.

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      If that were the case, then $ERRNO should not say
      If used numerically, yields the current value of the C errno variable
      and
      You can assign a number to $! to set errno
      The OP did nothing unreasonable. ikegami has settled the matter, in my opinion. It was a bug, it has been fixed.
        Yes it does say that in the 5.14 documentation. I don't remember what it used to say - but OK then you're right.

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