Re: RFC 33 (v2) Eliminate bareword filehandles.

[Tom Christiansen]

>Will this incarnation of open() be able to deal
>with bi directional process communication? 

The straightforward way to do that is quite simply:

    open(FH, "|foocmd thisfoo thatfoo|")

or for shell avoidance:

    open(FH, "|-|", "foocmd", "thisfoo", "thatfoo"))

--tom