[Mastering-perl] First Peek: Tied Variables

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:29:31PM -0600, brian d foy wrote:
> I thought about tying just the {IO} portion of a scalar, but then I
> need a package variable, which I think is worse than the
> bareword. Oh well.

Need a package variable?  For what?

BTW, you can do

  tie *{$fh}

but only with 5.8.0 or later.