Re: RFC 33 (v2) Eliminate bareword filehandles.

[Tom Christiansen]

>David L. Nicol wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> How about ALLOWING bareword everything-else?  Start having
>> filehandles work the way everyone expects them to at first,
>> passing as arguments and so forth, without any special treatment?

>How about barewords are always interpreted as function names (by default);
>and the traditional barewords (STDOUT, etc.) are defined as functions
>which return filehandles (like a thunk, eh?).

At one point, they were going to return objects that all inherited
from, or were instances of, FileHandle.  But that was before we'd
hit on class methods.  Still, they do look like classes, nay?

--tom