in reply to On timely destruction?
I often have filehandles that escape their lexical context. To whit, I have a sub to open a file, and return the filehandle. It's called replacable parts -- for the prototype I have it open a static filename, later I have it be more configurable, with a config file, or whatever. (OK, I don't, but if I wrote cleanly, I would.)
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