From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-06-22T22:46:25+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in $. ?

On Jun 22, 2006, at 4:46 AM, Wybo Dekker wrote:

> Pit Capitain wrote:
>
>> DATA does indeed "point to" the input file, right after the  
>> __END__. You can verify this for example by calling DATA.rewind.  
>> After that, you can read the text before the __END__.
>
> Sure, but that is part of the bug, in my opinion. After DATA.rewind  
> I want to see the first line of the DATA section again. If I want  
> to see the program source, I can use $0

Just FYI, Perl also allows you to reach the source via DATA.

James Edward Gray II