Re^2: Uninitialized filehandles not as advertised?!

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And die-ing on a failed open call would probably be better than returning something that some other piece of code may try to use as a filehandle and mysteriously barf on.

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Re^3: Uninitialized filehandles not as advertised?! by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 26, 2008 at 20:42 UTC
Not at all. It's different, not better or worse. For example, `open` returns an error code and not an exception. Why should his `open` wrapper be any different?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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