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From: crehta@tasu74.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Passing file handles as parameters
Message-ID: <3769@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 08:30:19 GMT
References: <3751@taux01.UUCP> <1990May2.164445.11633@iwarp.intel.com>
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Organization: National Semiconductor (IC) Ltd, Israel
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In article <1990May2.164445.11633@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>In article <3751@taux01.UUCP>, crehta@tasu74 (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
>|                    ....               Would this be possible
>| in the future?
>
>It has been possible for a long time.

>	print $filehandle "hello world\n";

>Pretty durn easy if you ask me.  And it's even documented!

I plea not guilty.

I tried

    print "STDOUT" "Hello\n";

Which gave a syntax error.  I didn't realise the possibility that
$variable as a special case may be used where EXPR is not legal,
so I didn't look it up in the manual.  

Sorry

-- Ran
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