Re: Perl, the new generation

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 07:40:04PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > or some such, unless the purpose of the local(*foo) could be determined
> > by unscrupulous means.  Similarly, glob aliases *foo = *bar would
> > need special treatment.
> 
> By far most of my use of typeglobs is making aliases, and then mostly
> for code:
> 
>       *color = \&colour;
> 
> So naturally I hope this will require even less keystrokes in Perl 6 :-)

I would say that probably the most common use now for typeglobs is from the IO::
modules. Which are created with gensym so they are anonymous.

Graham.