[FWP] Filehandles? IO::Handles?

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

My co-worker has this tendency to dig up and use every single obscure
feature of Perl.  He showed me this one the other day, for those of
you who are -really- into the whole OO thing:

use IO::Handle;

open(FILE, "whatever");
while($line = *FILE->getline) {
	*STDOUT->print($line);
}
*STDOUT->print("This is just plain wrong.\n");


Some sort of weird backwards compatibility thing <shudder>.


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Michael G Schwern                                           schwern@pobox.com
                    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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