On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Brian Gunlogson wrote:
A filehandle is kinda like a namespace for the file. It shouldn't have a datatype, because it doesn't contain data.
Files don't contain data??
He said *filehandles* don't contain data, not files. :-)
Which is not strictly true or they wouldn't work, but only the open function can put valid data into a filehandle and only the close function can remove valid data from a filehandle.
Perl inherited its filehandles from C where they are a pointer to a structure which contains a lot of housekeeping details on the opened file and is used to hide all those messy details from the user (programmer).
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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