From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T07:25:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing var to anoter script

Hi,

Am Freitag, 21. Sep 2007, 22:17:22 +0900 schrieb Michal Sza:
> > 
> >   system "ruby", "popi.rb", $ie
> > 
> What I just noticed was that it throws me an error saying that $ie 
> cannot be converted to string. Why is trying to convert it to string if 
> it's the 1st arg.?

That was what I meant when I wrote this:

> > I doubt whether objects that are connected to processes
> > outside could be marshalled at all.

Arguments to Unix commands are always strings; return value
is always a 1-byte integer where 0 means success.

Bertram


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