Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>It seems that this issue is definitely worth a quick RFC - something
>like "proposal to return filehandles from open/opendir rather than supply
>as arguments". 

What about the pids that come back from begotten processes, as in 

    open(FILTER, "| cat -v | sort | lpr")
or
    open(MESELF, "|-")

--tom