Re: Using currently selected filehandle

I'm not sure why you're doing this. print can already print to a filehandle:

print "Hello, world!\n";
select(STDERR);
print "To STDERR\n";
select(STDOUT);
print STDERR "Also on STDERR\n";
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Re: Re: Using currently selected filehandle by sgifford (Prior) on Jun 23, 2003 at 18:20 UTC
`printto` is a fairly complex 30-line sub which prints to a filehandle. To use `print`'s default behavior, I would have to duplicate that entire sub, changing `print $fh ...` to just `print ...`. I want to avoid doing that; it would require any changes to the output routines to happen identically in both places to avoid inconsistency, and my experience is that this is error-prone. Of course, if anybody has suggestions for another way to do this, I'm all ears!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Using currently selected filehandle by particle (Vicar) on Jun 23, 2003 at 18:23 UTC
why not have your print method take an optional filehandle? ~Particle accelerates	[reply] [d/l]