Re: Treating filehandles like strings

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:12:27 -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:

>One of the most valuable features was that the very large majority
>of the helper routines I used, were simply wrappers around the
>standard facilities, that didn't require any error checking: the
>routine succeeded, or it printed a suitable error message and then
>died.

Yes. Very nice.

>and I'll breathe a big sigh of relief when I
>can just add "use Fatal qw(:all);" to the top of all my perl scripts
>and forever more ditch all the " or die ..." clauses.

Yes! Yes yes yes! Let's get rid of "open ... or die"!

-- 
        Bart.