Re: problams with IO::Socket::INET

Tom Christiansen (tchrist@jhereg.perl.com)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:36:08 -0700


>I wouldn't doubt it. :-) I realize there is some wierd stuff that would
>make it hard to fix this (print() has it's own opcode right?) but it's
>still wrong (read: a bug) that filehandles can only _appear_ to be objects.
>I guess that's the difference between a blessed object and a tied object.

Actually, filehandles appear to be classes; they're barewords in 

    STDOUT->autoflush;

--tom