What seems to work is to specify any layers in an extra binmode statement, i.e. while this doesn't work 

use Fatal "open";

open my $fh, "<:raw", \"foo";
print <$fh>, "\n";

--> dies with:
Can't open(GLOB(0x65ea40), <:raw, SCALAR(0x65eaa0)): No such file or d
+irectory at (eval 1) line 3
        main::__ANON__('GLOB(0x65ea40)', '<:raw', 'SCALAR(0x65eaa0)') 
+called at ./openstr.pl line 5

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this does work 

open my $fh, "<", \"foo";
binmode $fh, ":raw";
print <$fh>, "\n";

--> prints:
foo

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(Not sure if I'm telling you anything new -- just in case...)

Anyway, I agree that this is kinda weird.

In reply to Re: Clash between IO layers and "in memory" files? by almut
in thread Clash between IO layers and "in memory" files? by blazar

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