[ABE.pm] searching the archives

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2008-08-13T15:18:59]
> How do I search the ML archives?

Curses!

  http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/abe-pm/

No search there, and we're not loaded into perl.markmail.org

> I want to look up the reason Rick gave for using the new style open()
> command
> 
>     open my $fh, '>', $filename;
> 
> as opposed to the old style
> 
>     open(FH, ">$filename");

For one thing, having a string that contains multiple args is awful.  It's like
if you had to say:

  $sum = add_up("1:2:3:10"); # returns 16

More importantly, though, the old style creates a global filehandle.  Globals
are evil.

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rjbs