Not neato, not handy.

There are already a lot of modules that handle files in lots of ways. And Perl's internal open function is not too bad either (since the three-argument form was invented, that is).
You don't need to use FileHandle to automatically assign a file handle. In recent Perls, you can just use a scalar to do so: 
use Carp;
sub simpleopen {
    my ($mode, $file) = @_;
    my $fh;
    open($fh, $mode, $file) or croak $!;
    return $fh
}
my $logfile = simpleopen('>>', "$0.log");

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And still, that's code I wouldn't use, because there's already a perfect OO solution to that: IO::File. 
use IO::File;
my $logfile = IO::File->new("$0.log", 'a');

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I wonder why you used custom letters (qw/R W O F/), where the rest of the world uses qw/r a w/ and r+/w+/a+ (or even rw).
You might like to know the qw// operator, that acts like split ' ': %i = qw(R < W >> O +> F +<);.

Last, I'd like to tell you to (I would force you, if I could) read perlstyle. Indent! Add whitespace after commas! Indent some more! 

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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In reply to Re: JMHopen by Juerd
in thread Reaped: JMHopen by NodeReaper

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