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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.
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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