NAME

Lexical::Typeglob - Like Symbol except without globals

SYNOPSIS

  use Lexical::Typeglob 'lexglob';

  my $glob = lexglob();
  open $glob, 'filename';
  $_ = $glob;
  # etc.

DESCRIPTION

Lexical::Typeglob::lexglob creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a file or directory handle. This differs from Symbol::gensym only in that the glob has no symbol table component and the glob generation is four times as fast.

AUTHOR

Joshua b. Jore, <jjore@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Symbol.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003, Joshua b. Jore. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2, or

b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.