Re^2: Catching errors in closing lexical filehandles

On 5.005_03, you'd get a "Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference" error at compilation. Hence the gensym.

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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]