Re: RFC 30 (v4) STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, and DATA should become scalars

[Tom Christiansen]

>> What if it's an anonymous stream?  

>How do you open an anonymous stream?

Me?  This way:

    local(*HITHER, *THITHER);
    pipe(HITHER, THITHER) ......

or, I suppose, 

    my($hither, $thither);
    pipe($hither, $thither) ......

or even 

    pipe(my $hither, $thither) ......

Why, how do *you* open an anonymous stream? :-)

--tom