On 24 Apr 2000, (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Matt> So do I have to use gensym(), or not?
>
> As long as you are aware of the package in which the symbol ends up, I
> can't see how it'd matter. And nobody uses string indirect
> filehandles ($x = 'FH'; print $x 'hello') these days, we'd hope.
Nope, but often I do use the TomC "my $fh = do { local *FH; };" method,
because I hate those ugly HANDLE capital letters everywhere - they use up
more bytes than lower case ones... ;-)
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