in reply to File Handles

An easy method for looking up information like this in the future is to "cd" to Perl's Pod directory, which on my windows box is \Perl\lib\Pod. Then use
grep open perl*delta.pod |grep =head

The above gives

perl561delta.pod:=head2 open() with more than two arguments
and "perldoc perl561delta" gives you the documentation on changes. A "find" with "/open\(\)", with a few "next"s takes you right to what you want to see.