Thanks haukex, good to know what the mechanism is, though I sort of figured it would be presumptuous of me to suggest it officially without asking the Monastery first, which is why I did.

Of course, another way to prevent your bug would be to be more careful with the lexical scoping of filehandle variables

Yes, that is most certainly the best solution. I have this habit of declaring all my filehandles in the global scope and opening them all right away as a first step in my programs just to force the user to make sure all the the input files are accounted for before my program goes off and spends a bunch of time processing some of them only to find later one or more is missing and it has to die anyway. It's probably an amateurish thing to do.

Just another Perl hooker - will code for food

In reply to Re^2: Propose addition to use warnings? by perldigious
in thread Propose addition to use warnings? by perldigious

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