Hi, Monks. I've been exploring the world of net communications with Perl and Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln Stein. To make a long story short, I was playing around with the code in Fig. 5.6 which sets up what he calls a "gab" client and was wondering why the following alteration to the code makes the program hang: 
LOOP:
while (1) {
  {  # localize change to $/
    last LOOP unless @from_server = <$socket>; #<---program hangs on t
+his line
  }
  print @from_server,"\n";

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I naively thought that @from_server array would suck up the entire multiline output from the server, like what happens when the angle brackets are used in a list context on a regular file. Why doesn't it work with a socket?

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