SPUG: Looking for a graceful way to deal with file handles and modules

Andrew Sweger andy at n2h2.com
Tue Sep 28 20:13:17 CDT 1999


On Sep 28, 1999 @ 4:10pm, Doug Beaver wrote:

:} Filehandles are by definition globals, so you can't refer to it by
:} package name (I did a quick grep of the pods and didn't see anything
:} saying they weren't globals, so someone slap me if I'm wrong). 

Eh? I thought that globals where in fact symbol table entries and thus
available via the package name. Doug, say it ain't so! :)

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