Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>Not sure I agree with that.  I think one point of confusion / perceived
>difference between filehandles, open(), and basically every other
>builtin is that all the others *return* what you want.  

tie and bless and chop and chomp also all act upon their argument(s).
Just to name a few.  bless has the nice side effect of returning it, 
too, but the rest are probably subject to your confusion issue.

--tom