I don't follow your line of reasoning either

Essentially, I don't mind one way or the other within the main of (especially short) scripts.

That is, I fully appreciate the necessity for modules to localise (whether through local or lexicals), their affects upon the global environment. The global environment is the property of the top-level script.

But at the top-level of a script, I think it is a matter of choice, and do not see the need to dictate it one way or the other. If it was that imperative, then we'd also have to re-open STDIN, STDOUT STDERR, ARGV etc. to lexicals in every script, but we don't.

As for my preference, I prefer BAREWORDS for IO entities, because I think it serves to highlight an important distinction. That of things which have far-reaching (global) side-effects, and those that do not. I find the prevalence of the desire to make these two quite different things all look the same regretable.

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In reply to Re^4: Inserting a file inside of another by BrowserUk
in thread Inserting a file inside of another by Anonymous Monk

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