Why not make close receive a list of FH?

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Alberto Simões Why not make close receive a list of FH?

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Well, this is just an idea,

but it would be cool:

    open3 (A, B, C, "foo");


    close A, B, C;

Just a stupid idea.
Go on! :)
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
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Alberto Simões Well, this is just an idea, but it would be cool: open3 (A, B, C, "foo"); close A, B, C; Just a...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez 2008/11/11 Alberto Sim=F5es <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>: And what would be the return value ?...

Alberto Simões I said it was a stupid idea :-[

Paul Johnson Without defending the value of the idea (:-p), it would return the number of filehandles...

Abigail Same as with unlink, that is, the number of succesfully closed file handles? Abigail

Tux I am more worried about the error message close A, B, C or die "Close failed: $!"; if close A...

Abigail That issue isn't very different from: unlink $A, $B, $C or die "Unlink failed: $!"; chmod $mode,...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez 2008/11/11 Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>: Right, we'd still have the problem of knowing from which...

Abigail Of course. If you have the need to know from which filehandle the $! comes from, you shouldn't use...

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David Nicol close $_ or warn "close: $!" for (*A,*B,*C); perl -wle 'open A, "</dev/random"; open B,...

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