Re: Default filehandles(was Re: command line option: $|++)

[Peter Scott]

At 12:57 PM 8/15/00 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>This is a succinct summary of the basic conclusions thus far:
>
>    1. a default filehandle IS needed sometimes, but only
>       for stuff like print
>
>    2. $|, $\, $/, etc will probably go away entirely in
>       favor of object methods such as $handle->autoflush
>
>That's the current thinking. As always, this is subject to change.
>However, most everyone seems to agree that "having global $| vars that
>aren't really global but actually depend on what the currently selected
>filehandle is which depends on what select() was called on" is bad. So,
>setting stuff like autoflush will probably be object methods only.
>Setting stuff like the default for print will probably still be via the
>default filehandle.

Okay, so I guess it makes sense to define some command-line options that 
change the line characteristics for STDOUT and STDIN, which is what it 
boils down to.

While you're at it, mebbe you could come up with something better than @F 
for -a  :-)


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies