| Randal | so that could enver be confused with a scalar |
| f00li5h | yay a ref ref! |
| Dsbeerf | RageAgainstThem, well i want to be able to talk with people on msn via my irc client i alrealy have a base of a perl for that but, since windows live messenger they changed protocol again so have to redo it but i can't figure what to change |
| mauke | seig: my code will treat all references as filehandles |
| Randal | as in, STDIN could never be confused with $foo so your question needs refining |
| RageAgainstThem | lol dsbreef, I don't even get why u wanna give up msn for irc your wierd |
| seig | ok, gimme a sec |
| RageAgainstThem | irc - text msn - colour n photos |
| Dsbeerf | RageAgainstThem, you ever tried bitlbee 1st ? :P |
| Randal | there are many things taht can be used where a filehandle is expected |
| RageAgainstThem | i'll answer that with a quote |
| Randal | too many, because it changed over time |
| RageAgainstThem | [02:57] <Dsbeerf> RageAgainstThem, and what about bitlbee ? [02:58] <RageAgainstThem> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? |
| f00li5h | RageAgainstThem: is that a no? because '?' on it's own doesn't mean anything |
| Randal | 'STDIN' can be used as STDIN in certain circumstances, for example |
| RageAgainstThem | indeed it is a no, never heard to bitlbee |
| Randal | $x = 'STDOUT'; print $x "some string to stdou\n"; |
| mauke | use strict 'refs'; |
| Randal | right... that's a symref but it can still act as a filehandle |
| rhizo | {Prison Break, season 1}++ # thanks to whoever recommended it :) |
| f00li5h | mauke: don't quote 'refs'! it's your last chance to use barwords! |
| mauke | sub refs () { refs => } |
| action | f00li5h thinks the milk in his coffee is off |
| f00li5h | thinks the milk in his coffee is off require Fresh qw/ milk /; |
| mauke | I wonder what "no less;" is for |
| Randal | barwords! "gin and toic" "gin and tonic" |
| seig | its for a function that uploads a file to an FTP server, but it can take a filehandle or a filename as the argument to put() and if its a filename i have to attatch the directory to the filename |
| Randal | are you writing that? |
| seig | the function yes |
| Randal | it'd be best to write that as two different funtions |
| simcop2387 | RageAgainstThem: |
| f00li5h | Randal: really? |