Could you please write up an RFC on this?
K.
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:04:38AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>There was some discussion at TPC4 that typeglobs could be expunged from
>P6. If this is likely, it would free up a type-defining punctuation
>character (*).
>
>Could this be used for filehandles? I have often thought that filehandles
>were handicapped unnecesarily by looking like barewords. Granted, these
>days you can put one in a scalar, but then visually, you can't tell that
>it's a filehandle except by context, and type prefixes are designed to
>obviate that problem.
>
>Using * as a type prefix for filehandles seems natural (it's been the most
>common use anyway in statements like "local *FH") and I don't see how it
>breaks backward compatibility any more than would happen if typeglobs get
>the axe.
>--
>Peter Scott
>Pacific Systems Design Technologies
>
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