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Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >=item Complex filehandle references
>
> > my %filesystem;
> > my $filename = '/etc/shells';
> > open $filesystem{$filename}, $filename
> > or die "can't open $filename: $!";
> > print <$filesystem{$filename}>;
> > __END__
>
> > GLOB{0xa042284}
>
> This goes hand-in-glove with the issue that you
> can't write:
>
> print $fh{$name} "data\n";
>
> It's necessary but not sufficient to solve only the I part of this
> I/O difficulty.
Is some technical reason that this can't be done in perl 5? I hate
having to add another pair of braces just to reassure perl that I didn't
forget a comma:
print {$fh{$name}} "data\n";
Jon
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