Re^2: What is refactoring?

Localizing a typeglob to get a scope-bound filehandle is not necessarily a good idea for various other reasons as well. Why not simply: open my($fh), "<", $filename or die "open $filename: $!$/"; If that's an issue due to old Perl version, there's still Symbol::gensym, and a short wrapper function will make its use nearly as concise as the above snippet.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: What is refactoring? by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2002 at 15:59 UTC
Localizing a typeglob to get a scope-bound filehandle is not necessarily a good idea for various other reasons as well. Oh. Didn't know there were other possible problems. What are they? I know of the gensym solution for early perls - but since 99% of the time overriding the non-IO bits of the glob hasn't been an issue for me I stuck with the `local` method when I couldn't autovivify the filehandle. Curious to know what the other possible pitfalls are.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: What is refactoring?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 10, 2002 at 15:59 UTC

Localizing a typeglob to get a scope-bound filehandle is not necessarily a good idea for various other reasons as well.

Oh. Didn't know there were other possible problems. What are they?

I know of the gensym solution for early perls - but since 99% of the time overriding the non-IO bits of the glob hasn't been an issue for me I stuck with the local method when I couldn't autovivify the filehandle.

Curious to know what the other possible pitfalls are.

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