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in thread Tie::File, is untie file handle must?

Because its value is undefined.

Personally, I think that's a good thing.

That way, if I try to use it -- like print it -- before I've done something sensible with it, I get a nice friendly message telling me so; rather than an mysterious zero that shouldn't be.

If only C had a non-zero, non-null value that variables got implicitly initialised to.

Anyone got any experience of this phone's predecessor?

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