Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>> No: lists are the plural whatzitzes, containing zero or more singular
>> whatzitzes.  They are ordered.  Arrays hold lists.

>I tend to agree with Tom's argument here. open() is kind of funny
>anyways. Why couldn't it work like this, similar to FileHandle:

>   $fh = open $filename;
>   print $fh "some stuff";
>   close $fh;


It does, actually:

    open my $fh, $filename;
    print $fh "some stuff";
    close $fh;

Cool, eh? :-)

--tom