Re: Event->io does not accept GLOB refs

[email protected] (Marc Lehmann)
Newsgroups perl.loop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 04:27:26PM +0100, Mike Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > reference as argument, but I cannot get this to work (it only works
> > with some glob references, e.g. ones created by IO::Handle):
> 
> In your example, you have a glob, not a glob reference.   They're
> different things.

Don^t trust my mail, trust the documentation ;) Event indeed talks about
GLOBs, not glob references.

> Though it would be good practice if Event accepted globs as well as
> glob refs, in the same way as most other IO stuff does.

Jepp ;)

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