•Re: On timely destruction?

[merlyn]

{
  my $foo; open $foo, "<bar.txt"; print "Baz\n";
}
{
  my $foo; open $foo, "<bar.txt"; print "xyzzy\n";
}

That's not an issue, because any new use of open should do a clean close, as if the variable has also gone out of scope.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[Elian]

Well... not in the case I posited. Since the filehandle variables were lexically scoped, the second open is using a different lexical than the first open, so no force-close there.