in reply to Re^4: Passing filehandles to subroutines
in thread Passing filehandles to subroutines

Eh? How does my program dup'ing STDOUT force Pod::HTML's open HTML,">-"; to print to mod_perl's tied default filehandle?

(and yes, temporary files are very icky indeed)

rdfield

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Re^6: Passing filehandles to subroutines
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 17, 2003 at 23:44 UTC
    Ah, I see. Well, your case is a valid use of this as a workaround for an apparently sloppily written module, but the emphasis here is on "sloppily written".

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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