in reply to Lexical filehandles: unblessed but (sometimes) can

I fear the answer is simple: legacy, backward compatibility, historical reasons. Printing to filehandles existed before objects in Perl.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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