Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Um, what stops open returning undef on failure (and setting $!), so I could do
>> 
>>          $fh = open $filename or die "open $filename failed: $!\n";
>
>Exactly. You don't lose anything because open() will still return "true"
>(a handle) or "false" (undef).

You loose one little thing - you have a new scalar (the handle)

with 

open $fh,$filename

one can re-use an existing thing to which someone else may have a reference.
(Not that that is useful very often.)

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Nick Ing-Simmons