Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Larry Wall]

Peter Scott writes:
: At 06:28 PM 8/2/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
: >ref() has always been a de facto typeof operator, no?
: >
: >     open my $fh, "< /etc/motd";
: >     print ref $fh
: >GLOB
: 
: Can we make that IO in P6...?

Maybe, but it might be some class derived from an IO object, depending
on how we decide to do things.

Larry