Wise monks!

I implore your wisdom to dispel the shadows inside me. This is possibly the silliest question a hermit can post, so I also implore your patience as well. Ever since 2005 I have successfully opened files using the following (sinful) way:

open FILE, ">", $file;

Knowing that evil's way is easy and broad, and after repenting for my sins, I solemnly promised the @perl_deities that as far it is possible and reasonable I will stick to Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices ... and now I find myself banging my head against a wall, trying to understand why this works:

open (my $fh, ">", $file);

(program works as expected)

but this doesn't:

open (my $fh, ">", $file) or die "Can't open $fh";

"Global symbol "$fh" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $fh"?) at test.pl line 91. Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors."

I am using warnings and strict pragmata as usual. Using perl 5.28.0 in Linux.

Any hint will be appreciated!

In reply to open(), go away with bad way, or fail with the right way? by hda

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