On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>> 2010/2/6 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2010, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
> [...]
>>>> # return all refs matching refs/notes/<globspecs> where the globspecs
>>>> # are taken from the notes feature content.
>>>> sub get_note_refs {
>>>> + local $/ = "";
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Why it is needed here? Why you want to use empty lines as terminator
>>> (which means reading whole paragraphs), while treating two or more
>>> consecutive empty lines as a single empty line (according to
>>> perlvar(1))?
>>>
>>> If you want to slurp whole file, this should be
>>>
>>> local $/;
>>>
>>> or more explicit
>>>
>>> local $/ = undef;
>>
>> Ah, sorry, for some reason I thought "" was the default.
>
> If you wanted to use default value, why set it at all?
Ach, sorry, forgot to reply to the first part of the question. It's
used in a context where $/ is locally set to \0, so it needs to be
reset.
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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