Re: [FWP] Filehandles? IO::Handles?

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Michael Schwern wrote:
> 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");

Before you slap him upside the head for the OO stuff,
break his kneecaps for this:

	open(FILE, "whatever");



> Some sort of weird backwards compatibility thing <shudder>.

Hey, it comes in mighty handy sometimes.

John Porter


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