Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!dogie!rhesus!bin 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 References: <2389@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 12 > $fileh can never be a filehandle. It CAN be a variable pointing to a > filehandle, however. > > open ($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?