Re: gensym()

[Doug MacEachern]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> Is it necessary to use gensym() in a PerlHandler() - it doesn't seem
> necessary to me. The book says "Ordinary bareword filehandles are prone to
> namespace clashes". Is that the case for a perl module? I don't think
> so. 

no, you don't have to use gensym().  we tried to promote the use of
lexicals rather than globals in the book, but the choice is yours.

with 5.6.0, 'open my $fh, ...' is the best solution.