Re: Default filehandles(was Re: command line option: $|++)

[Chaim Frenkel]

I'm not sure if you are disagreeing with me or not.

The context was the statment that $STDOUT is the _default_ filehandle.
I was pointing out that by _overriding_ the instantaneous meaning of
$STDOUT to the default fail handle, one would lose the immediate
access to the previous value.

I.e. $STDOUT should always mean one and only one file at a time.

Unless one wants to have a $DEFAULT filehandle and get rid of single
arg select.

<chaim>

>>>>> "JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

JSD> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 06:53:30PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> What if you want to print to a default file handle and also to STDOUT?
>> 
>> select(OTHERFH);
>> print "This goest to OTHERFH\n";
>> print STDOOUT "This went to STDOUT\n";

JSD> print $_ "Here I come to save the day!\n" for ($PERL::STDOUT, $myfh);

JSD> And again, if you want to print different stuff to different
JSD> filehandles, you know how to use the

JSD>    print FILEHANDLE LIST;

JSD> version of print.




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