[ABE.pm] Text::Template Q

[Faber J. Fedor]

On 26/07/06 14:04 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> * "Faber J. Fedor" <faber at linuxnj.com> [2006-07-26T13:26:47]
> > I now want to redirect the output to a file, so I thought simply
> > doing this would work:
> > 
> >     open(OUTFILE, "> $myfile");
> >     my $report_destination = \*OUTFILE;
> >     printHeader();
> 
> You are using antique file handles.  

"Antique"?!  I never got the memo!

> The all-caps, all-global filehandles will come back to haunt you some day.

And today was that day; when I switch to the new (?) style, T::T worked
perfectly.

So WTF is the difference between the two styles?


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