Lexical file handles

From: Tintin (tintin_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:17:01 +1300

Now that recent versions of Perl have lexical file handles, can anyone give
me some practical examples of why they are useful/better.

The only thing I can think of is that with 'use strict', you'll catch typos
in your filehandles, however I'm sure there's plenty of other reasons.

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