Re: RFC 33 (v2) Eliminate bareword filehandles.

[Piers Cawley]

Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> >This and other RFCs are available on the web at
> >  http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
> 
> >=head1 TITLE
> 
> >Eliminate bareword filehandles.
> 
> "Eliminate" is such a strong word.  You're saying that we can't
> use STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, ARGV, or DATA anymore?  Heck, some people
> still use stdin and stdout! :-)

They can be predefined constant functions returning the appropriate
filehandle object.

Eliminating arbitrary bareword filehandles may or may not be a good
thing. 

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Piers