Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>Hearing no outright derision in response to my trial balloon, here it is as 
>an RFC:

>=head1 TITLE

>Filehandles should use C<*> as a type prefix if typeglobs are eliminated.

Nope.  A filehandle is a singular whatzitz.  It thus mandatory takes
the singular prefix; to wit, $.  What's next?  Integer and float and
complex and string and char and bits prefixes?

--tom