Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:31:06PM -0400, Ted Ashton wrote:
> But that, precisely, was my point:  Arrays *and* hashes.

Scalars, hashes, arrays. There's actually more than one type of plural here,
gramatically:

    scalars     hashes  arrays
    singular    dual    plural

(Or am I the only one left who did Ancient Greek? :)

> (and don't say, "because plural *means* more than one" :-).  If having a
> filehandle character would make the code clearer, then let's do it.

If it would, yes. I'm not convinced that it would. But I do concede that
people see filehandles as something conceptually different from an "ordinary"
scalar.

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