On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:07 +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
> # No problem:
> my $data = BEGIN {
> my $fh = open "some_file" err...;
> =$fh;
> };
>
> # Problem;
> my $fh = BEGIN { open "some_file" err... };
> # Compile-time filehandle leaked into runtime!
> say =$fh;
Perhaps I'm being very naive, but why is this a problem? Maybe it's not
the best way to do something, but I can see it being useful in some
circumstances.
Are you worried about using up resources? If you don't refer to $fh
elsewhere, GC will take care of it. (If you really worried about it,
you'd explicitly close it somewhere.)
-- c
