Re: Treating filehandles like strings

[Hildo Biersma]

Jon Ericson wrote:
> 
> You misunderstand.  I want to write this:
> 
>   open my $file, '/path/to/file' or die "can't open $file: $!";
>   # code passes
>   # /path/to/file is removed by another process
>   # dang! what file did I open?
>   print "I opened $file\n"; # ahh! that was it

As cool as this may be, it also inhibits us from using alternative
'to_string' operations on filehandles, including bytes read, position,
type (socket/pipe/file), etc.  I'd rather see a more OO approach where
you'd have to do $file->{name}.

Hildo