Re: RFC 34 (v3) Angle brackets should not be used for file globbing

[Tom Christiansen]

>=item Complex filehandle references

>    my %filesystem;
>    my $filename = '/etc/shells';
>    open $filesystem{$filename}, $filename 
>        or die "can't open $filename: $!";
>    print <$filesystem{$filename}>;
>    __END__

>    GLOB{0xa042284}

This goes hand-in-glove with the issue that you
can't write:

    print $fh{$name} "data\n";

It's necessary but not sufficient to solve only the I part of this
I/O difficulty.

--tom