Is there any reason why you can't just do a normal print to a filehandle?

print FILE "this is text\n";
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And if you must redirect the output of an unqualified print statement, why not just use select?

select(FILE);
print "Printing to FILE\n";
select(STDOUT);
print "Printing to STDOUT\n";
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Typeglobs are cool and all, but I try to avoid messing with the symbol table whenever possible.