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I believe one of the advantages of using IO::Handle (from which IO::File inherits) is to have a little more control on a per-handle basis, such as being able to do $io_handle->autoflush(1). Other than that I agree.

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Re^3: simple to describe I/O problem
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Sep 01, 2014 at 21:01 UTC
    Agreed. I am not saying that that the IO::xxx hierarchy is useless, but just that, in the case in point, this seems to be overkill.