Re: RFC 30 (v4) STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, and DATA should become scalars

[Jon Ericson]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> Nathan Wiger wrote:
> >    3. There's no way to have them interpolated in strings into
> >       something potentially useful.
> 
> The string value of a file handle.  Hmm.  Is it's internal file 
> descriptor number? 

Umm... that's the numeric value of a file handle, right?

> Is it the name of the file?  

Close.  It should be the string passed to the open that created the file
handle.

> What if it's an anonymous stream?  

How do you open an anonymous stream?

> Is it the contents of the file?  

No.  That's what <$STDIN> is for.

Jon
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