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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: suggestion for dbmopen
Message-ID: <11205@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:18:08 GMT
References: <HIMAZU.91Jan12114429@isl.mei.co.jp>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <HIMAZU.91Jan12114429@isl.mei.co.jp> himazu@isl.mei.co.jp (IMAZU Hideyo) writes:
: "open" take an expression as FILEHANDLE argument.
: But "dbmopen" doesn't take an expression as ASSOC argument.
: In some situations, it is useful that "dbmopen" take an expression
: as ASSOC.

Okay, I'll try to make that legal in 4.0.

Larry