in reply to Re^2: Strange piece of code!
in thread Strange piece of code!

Nope. The parameter is optional and the default is true: ... If no argument is given the previous value is unchanged (except for $io->autoflush will actually turn ON autoflush by default). - from perldoc IO::Handle

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