On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:29:21PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> The C<dbmopen> and C<dbmclose> commands are legacy commands which have been
> deprecated for at least 5 years. They should be removed from the language.
Two nit picks.
First, dbmopen() isn't deprecated.
[This function has been largely superseded by the tie() function.]
--perlfunc
Deprecated, no. Redundant, yes. And Perl has *never* had two ways to
do things. ;)
Secondly, I still use dbmopen(). I find it a much simpler interface
than AnyDBM_File when I just need any ol' disk hash.
Compare:
dbmopen(%foo, 'somefile', 0644);
with:
use AnyDBM_File;
use Fcntl;
tie %hash, 'AnyDBM_File', 'somefile', O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644;
dbmopen()'s interface is much shorter and its much, much easier to
understand. Try explaining O_RDWR|O_CREAT to a newbie. People have
enough trouble with 0644.
Now, this doesn't mean dbmopen() has to remain as a builtin. It could
be written as a pure Perl wrapper around tie() and AnyDBM_File. But
keep it somewhere. Its useful and its not bothering anyone.
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