Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>Not sure I agree with that.  I think one point of confusion / perceived
>difference between filehandles, open(), and basically every other
>builtin is that all the others *return* what you want.  

Think of all the {file,dir}handle syscalls.  They don't do that.
They autoviv an object.

--tom