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Branden wrote:
> Just set autoflush, if you're lazy...
And say goodbye to performance...
> > The problem is
> > that you can not only count on $fh's DESTROY being called at the end of
> > the block, you often can't count on it ever happening.
>
> Anyway, the file would be flushed and closed...
That's not sufficient. Without deterministic finalisation, what does
the folowing do?
{
my $fh = IO::File->new("file");
print $fh "foo\n";
}
{
my $fh = IO::File->new("file");
print $fh "bar\n";
}
At present "file" will contain "foo\nbar\n". Without DF it could just
as well be "bar\nfoo\n". Make no mistake, this is a major change to the
semantics of perl.
Alan Burlison
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