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From: bin@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl filehandle question
Message-ID: <337@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 88 21:09:26 GMT
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Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
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> $fileh can never be a filehandle.  It CAN be a variable pointing to a
> filehandle, however.
> 
>  	open ($fileh, "/tmp/junk");
> and
>  	open (fileh, "/tmp/junk");
> 
> are equivalent if and only if $fileh eq 'fileh'.

So then it is impossible to have a local-only filehandle, since
	local (fileh);
is illegal?