Re: (tye)Re: why don't filehandles have punctuation before their name?

99 percent of the code I see posted here uses barewords as filehandles. Is there some other way to do it? How?

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Re (tilly) (???): why don't filehandles have punctuation before their name? by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 24, 2001 at 06:47 UTC
RE (tilly) 1: Merging files gives a demonstration. In Perl 5.6 there is no need to load up Symbol and call gensym, the handle autovivifies.	[reply]