in reply to Perl segfaults: Why?

What is the result of adding an integer to a filehandle?

Maybe this explains it? 

open $fh, '<', 'junk.dat';;

print $fh, $fh + 1;;
GLOB(0x3d39d90) 64200081

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Note: 0x3d39d90 => 64,200,080

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