Yah, I’m aware of the concept. I would use it (more readily than a special IO class, possibly, although my opinion on that changes every other day), but for a single close $fh or die "Couldn't close: $!" statement it just doesn’t seem worthwhile. It’s maddening – it’s a simple single statement whose absence is not worth complicating the code for, but it’s still annoying to have to write it, and there’s so little missing to make it unnecessary…

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: How do I make the garbage collector throw an exception when it fails to auto-close a filehandle? by Aristotle
in thread How do I make the garbage collector throw an exception when it fails to auto-close a filehandle? by Aristotle

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