Re: open()

Klaus Jantzen wrote:
So far I used quite successfully bare-word filehandles except in the
cases where
I wanted to pass the filehandle to a subroutine or store it somewhere.
Why should one separate the ">" etc. from the file name?

This question presents the perfect excuse for you to buy the book "Perl
Best Practices" by Damian Conway. It should be the second book that any
Perl progammer reads, and it discusses these topics (and dozens more)
in considerable detail.

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