> Can you elaborate? Why is opening into a scalar better than opening into > a file handle?
It is also mentioned in the chapter about IO in Damian's Perl Best Practices (the Dog book.) A lot of people still use it, because that's what all editions of the Camel and Llama books say. perlfunc and perlopentut give the filehandle way first and then describe the scalar way in a bit confusing manner. I have used Perl 5.6 for a long time wishing that i could use a scalar as a filehandle before realizing that i can do it only when i read PBP in 2006. I did find typeglobs useful for a very few cases when using them to play with variable scope improved readability. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
