On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 16:11 +0100, Jakub Narębski wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> > So future reader will know what does it mean without running "perldoc >>> > perlvar". >>> >>> Hmmm... shouldn't future reader know it anyway? It is not that cryptic. >>> I'd say it is idiomatic Perl. >> >> It's plainly obscure. And I think it is not that often used - I keep >> forgetting what that pair of punctuation is actually meaning. > > I think it depends on what kind of Perl code one is used to. It is not > as obscure as $; and similar to $|, I think. > >> In this case I guess it would be more readable to use the following code >> instead: >> >> $fh->input_record_separator ("\0"); > > That would be a good change to replace > > local $/ = "\0"; > > open my $fh, "-|", git_cmd(), ..., '-z', ... > > with > > open my $fh, "-|", git_cmd(), ..., '-z', ... > $fh->input_record_separator ("\0"); > > (not forgetting about "use IO::Handle", which module is core Perl module); Actually it is replacing local $/ = "\0"; with IO::Handle->input_record_separator("\0"); see http://p3rl.org/IO::Handle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html