Re: Should while ( <$fh> ) and while (< $fh >) do the same thing?

Message-ID: <20050602184911.GA3292@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24690

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index b86dda4..04e1b48 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -1987,7 +1987,8 @@ depending on context.  This distinction is determined on syntactic
 grounds alone.  That means C<< <$x> >> is always a readline() from
 an indirect handle, but C<< <$hash{key}> >> is always a glob().
 That's because $x is a simple scalar variable, but C<$hash{key}> is
-not--it's a hash element.
+not--it's a hash element.  Even C<< <$x > >> (note the extra space)
+is treated as C<glob("$x ")>, not C<readline($x)>.
 
 One level of double-quote interpretation is done first, but you can't
 say C<< <$foo> >> because that's an indirect filehandle as explained