| From: | "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: plperl & sort |
| Date: | 2008-11-04 22:30:33 |
| Message-ID: | 34d269d40811041430xf634a8cr3bbf0ea13e115f1c@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 15:17, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> Alex Hunsaker wrote:
>> Err no you're right its only builtins that use main:: sort being the
>> only one I know of off the top of my head... its a shame
>> PLContainer->share('$main::a'); does not seem to work..
>>
>
>
> $a and $b are magical *package* variables. See "perldoc perlvar". This has
> nothing whatever to do with main::
Hah right! The perl is strong in this one! =)
I was just remember seeing warnings from typos like:
$ perl -We '$a = $b;'
Name "main::a" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
Name "main::b" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
... but that's neither here nor there
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