I asked this question previously, but received no response. I sure the reason was that I was far too verbose. So let me make it simple:
What is the logic that says all data types will be prefixed with special character such as "$" or "%" or "@" except file handles? Why are file handles weird?
Perl has only three data types, scalars and aggregates of scalars called arrays and hashes. Filehandles (and directory handles) aren't data types.
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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