Thanks for pointing that out; I have updated the text. Is open state also conditional currently or will it replace an already-open handle?

Godwin's law applies to hyperbolic comparisons; the reference to Fahrenheit 451 was to show that we are considering the first steps down a path that can lead to disaster. Removing code from programs is generally beneficial, but removing features from languages is almost always impoverishing. I could have cited Newspeak in 1984 as another example, but 1984 featured censorship imposed from a dictatorial top, while the censorship in Fahrenheit 451 was explained to have been more of a "crowd-sourced" phenomenon.

In reply to Re^2: On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by jcb
in thread On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by jcb

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