This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Eliminate bareword filehandles. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4 Aug 2000 Version: 1 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 33 =head1 ABSTRACT Now that scalars (objects) can be used for filehandles, the bareword form should be eliminated. =head1 DESCRIPTION The venerable bareword form of the filehandle leads to code that is unnecessarily abstruse given that they can now be stored in scalars. Bareword filehandles are not lexical, and require the use of typeglobs and C<local> to pass them to subroutines, concepts unnecessarily advanced for such a beginner-type operation. =head1 IMPLEMENTATION Easy, hopefully. =head1 REFERENCES L<perlvar/"Typeglobs and Filehandles">
