Re: Debhelper: Do not upgrade

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:10:13AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> That may be because the empty string is a valid file name on the
>> Hurd (it refers to the current directory), though it isn't on Linux.
>> The perl program that uses the empty file name, when what it really
>> intends is not to refer to any file name, is buggy.
>
>Yuck.
>
>Is this a common thing to do in Perl?

It's not one I've seen used very often. Modulo thinkos, I think most
Perl programmers would naturally use undef for that sort of thing.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]