>>>>> "DM" == Doug MacEachern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DM> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>> Well, this may be true, but if you load IO::File before startup then it's
>> not too big a deal...
DM> but it still adds a great deal of bloat to the server. and it's oo
DM> interface, while very slick, adds quite a bit of runtime overhead, turn
DM> the sugar sour imo.
In an embedded environment like mod_perl, then how do you suggest to
deal with the dangling file handles problem? That is, I'm processing
a file or two, and some error occurs. In a normal perl program, I'd
exit or return out and then when the program terminates, it
automagically closes all the files. In mod_perl, the auto-close
doesn't happen until much later. With the OO interface, when the
handle goes out of scope, such as a function call return, the file is
implicitly closed.
What other mechanism do you propose to handle this situation other
than IO::File? I use it all the time myself.
