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

[Nathan Wiger]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >Scalars hold references to objects.  Filehandles should, ultimately,
> >be objects, as should directory handles.
> 
> I haven't yet seen anybody yet propose bifurcating {file,directory}handles.
> This would certainly be nice.

If I'm understanding what you mean, I believe RFC 14 discusses this, as
does RFC 239, but this could be expanded if it is unclear. Perhaps just
a separate RFC on file/dir handles is in order.

-Nate