>Is there any reason to not pass file handles as parameters to methods?
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>I have a class that formats data into html...
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>=fwrite(f,htmlformat.td(table.field))
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>This writes

'<td>My Data</td>'

to file handle f.
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>I could save a lot of coding if it is an ok practice to pass the file handle. Therefore it would become...
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>htmlformat.td(f,table.field)
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>...with the fwrite happening in the method.

I would say the later approach is better. Or, if you would have this as an object, you could define a property nHandle and only initialize it once.