At 10:19 AM 8/30/00 -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>Not a huge issue, but I hadn't seen anyone else bring it up.
>If in fact:
> bareword filehandles are ditched
> globs are killed
> prototypes are potentially touched.
>
>perlsub
> sub myopen (*;$) myopen HANDLE, $name
> sub mypipe (**) mypipe READHANDLE, WRITEHANDLE
>
>You have things to consider:
> you make prototyping even more of a five-pound weakling, and provide
> no filehandle prototyping
And? We have no reference prototyping either.
> you preserve the current syntax, using what will in the future
> be an obscure syntax since globs are gone. (fun perl trivia)
>
> concoct a new magical incantation to represent filehandles
I was pretty much assuming that any detritus surrounding bareword
filehandles would exit along with them.
No-one AFAICT has yet brought up formats, and what would happen to them if
bareword filehandles go the way of the dodo. I am hoping that they get put
into a module anyway, but can someone who uses them more than I do opine on
how the declaration syntax ought to change if there are no bareword
filehandles?
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
