[Chicago-talk] "File-scraping"

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Sun Jan 18 23:17:22 CST 2004



-- Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>

>> Or if you prefer to use the shiny IO::File objects (as I do)
>>
>>     my $fh = IO::File->new();
>>     $fh->open( 'filename' );
>
> Why do you prefer them?
>
> 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?

Setting attributes without having to play select games
for one. Querying the attr's another.


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