Re: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles

As an aside, that snippet works in 5.6.1, and as far as I know, worked with much earlier versions too. What was introduced in in 5.8.0 was the ability to use a reference for the filename as an alternative to IO::Scalar.

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Re^2: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles by gaal (Parson) on Sep 27, 2004 at 14:57 UTC
On 5.005_03, you'd get a "`Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference`" error at compilation. Hence the `gensym`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 27, 2004 at 15:16 UTC
I see, thanks! good to know what works and doesn't work in which version. I'm so used to using FileHandle, which uses gensym.	[reply]