Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!devvax!lwall From: lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: perl filehandle question Message-ID: <2404@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 7 Jul 88 17:34:53 GMT References: <2389@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <337@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> Reply-To: lwall@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 8 In article <337@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> Brain in Neutral writes about perl: : So then it is impossible to have a local-only filehandle, since : local (fileh); : is illegal? That is correct. Of course, there are ways of simulating it by having a local variable point to a generated filehandle. Larry