On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:19:19PM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Sam Kington <s...@illuminated.co.uk> wrote: > > >>> # Checking return values is a good thing. Checking the return value of > >>> # close or print STDERR is downright silly. > > > In the code that we write at $WORK, any filehandle we close tends to be a > > log file or something, so adding extra boilerplate to our close statements > > would just be annoying. > > Why are you doing this by hand? Why aren't you letting autodie handle > this for you?
What we really need is for autodie to work on the implicit close on a lexical filehandle going out of scope. Someone please write that. And then fix up all the little bits and bobs around the edges. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net