bareword::filehandles

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2014-08-21
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NAME

bareword::filehandles - disables bareword filehandles

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

    no bareword::filehandles;

    open FH, $file            # dies
    open my $fh, $file;       # doesn't die

    print FH $string          # dies
    print STDERR $string      # doesn't die

DESCRIPTION

This module lexically disables the use of bareword filehandles with builtin functions, except for the special builtin filehandles "STDIN", "STDOUT", "STDERR", "ARGV", "ARGVOUT" and "DATA".

METHODS

unimport

Disables bareword filehandles for the remainder of the scope being compiled.

import

Enables bareword filehandles for the remainder of the scope being compiled.

AUTHOR

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsa°ker <ilmari@ilmari.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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