Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:53:58PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> 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.)

Well perhaps that's what 

        $fh = open $fh;

does.

-Scott
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