Re: [PATCH 6/6] Remove bareword filehandles in git-send-email.perl

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Le Sunday 03 May 2009 22:58:26 Jeff King, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:12:23AM -0400, Bill Pemberton wrote:
> > The script was using bareword filehandles.  This is considered a bad
> > practice so they have been changed to indirect filehandles.
>
> I think this is a real improvement; using indirect filehandles mean they
> get scoped properly, which can avoid errors (especially forgetting to
> close() them, which happens automagically when they go out of scope).
> Assuming, of course, that the scoping added by your change is correct,
> and doesn't close a handle during a loop that we may have wanted to keep
> open (I didn't check carefully).
>
> But in the patch itself:
> > -	open(C,">",$compose_filename)
> > +	open my $C,'>',$compose_filename
>
> There are actually two things happening here:
>
>   1. s/C/my $C/, which I think is good
>
>   2. losing the parentheses around open(). This is a style issue, but I
>      think we usually prefer the parenthesized form of most perl
>      builtins (and certainly in the absence of other information, it
>      should be left as-is).
>

And why not go the full way and using IO::File?

my $fh = new IO::File;

$fh->open("/the/file", O_RDONLY|...)

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