[Melbourne-pm] Promoting old-school file handles to io::handles

[Alfie John]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Ryan, Martin G <
Martin.G.Ryan at team.telstra.com> wrote:

> Toby Corkindale says
>
> > Some of the calling code was passing me filehandles that were, get this,
> > overloaded fileglobs that were blessed. Like this:
>
> I have vague recollection that in early version of perl5 the *only* way you
> could pass filehandles into subs was via a typeglob reference.
>

Of course! Forgot about that. Nice pickup Martin.

Alfie


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