[Chicago-talk] Use vi in perl

[Jim Thomason]

> 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".

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

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

-Jim....