[Chicago-talk] Use vi in perl

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Tue May 24 15:40:31 PDT 2011


>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomason <jim at jimandkoka.com> writes:

>> The first person to say "No, you should have used a lexical filehandle
>> there" will get a free copy of my "Perl Second Best Practices" slide
>> deck, subtitled "Why Damian's guidelines are just that... guidelines".

Jim> Well then, is there a strong reason -not- to use a lexical filehandle
Jim> (either in this case or generally)?

Jim> Or are you just being curmudgeonly and I should get off your lawn?
Jim> :-)

I avoid lexical filehandles for 10-line scripts.  I find the original
classic package filehandles to be less noise.

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