The internet being what it is, my troll-o-meter is going off

Seems a bit harsh - this monk has continually provided quality advice, and in a manner that exudes earnestness and a genuine interest in the betterment of perl.
Mind you, there's a bit going on here that I simply don't understand - especially posts by YourMother and LanX which appear to be angled towards provocation more than anything else.

In terms of the original post of this thread, I have some sympathy.
While I see potential pitfalls in the use of bareword filehandles, I don't regard that it is necessary to enforce defaults that forbid such usage.
But then ... I don't really have anything against scalar filehandles and I'm a person who values pragmatism over integrity so I've just gone through the various test scripts of my cpan modules that use bareword filehandles, replacing them with scalar filehandles. (This is just so I'm prepared for what the future might bring.)
It wasn't so hard ... just put a "$" in front of every bareword filehandle in the script, then declare a "my" for every one of those scalar filehandles at the beginning of the script.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by syphilis
in thread On Backwards Compatibility and Bareword Filehandles by jcb

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