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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Perl V3 side effect
Message-ID: <6320@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 26 Oct 89 03:35:35 GMT
References: <2800019@kailand>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <2800019@kailand> pwolfe@kailand.kai.com writes:
: 
: One side effect of Perl Version 3.0 that broke a number of our scripts has to
: do with the normal filehandle names being changed from lowercase to uppercase
: (eg. from stdout to STDOUT), which changed the default detail line format
: name, so scripts that depended on that name being "stdout" now produce NO
: output at all.
: 
: I can't say that this is actually a bug, but it was an unexpected change, and
: will delay installation of version 3 on a number of our machines (until all
: broken scripts can be found and fixed).  The fix is to assign an detail record
: format name ($~ = "stdout";).  While you're at it, you might as well assign the
: header format name too, just in case that changes sometime in the future.

"format stdout" will be grandfathered in patch #1, when I get it together in
a day or two.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov