On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:35:05PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: > Now that you can say > > open my $fh, "foo"; > > the big reason to use 'em (passing around to funcs easily) has gone > away. What else do you dig? $fh->open( 'foo' ) || croak( "sorry charlie" ); Also, I like my $fh to be a IO::File reference and not a reference to a anonymous GLOB. //Ed