Re: [ID 20000124.001] Refcount problem

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:56:12 MST, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>>local(*FOO) has always localized the contents of *FOO (the GvGP in
>>gutspeech).  In fact, this is the behavior that makes local(*FOO)
>>also localize $FOO, %FOO, @FOO and the filehandle FOO.
>
>I believe that the standard way to deal with this has been to use
>*FH not \*FH.  Notice how the examples in perldata on returning 
>local handles do not use backslash.

Yes, *FH is already a kind of a reference [*], so returning \*FH is like
returning a reference to a reference.

[*] Except that it refers to more than one kind of thingy at the same
time.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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