[Chicago-talk] "File-scraping"

[Ed Summers]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:35:05PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> 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?
    
    $fh->open( 'foo' ) || croak( "sorry charlie" );

Also, I like my $fh to be a IO::File reference and not a reference to 
a anonymous GLOB. 

//Ed