Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Jon Ericson]

"Greg Boug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So open has to parse the string for a URL and magically use 
> a http protocol? Not sure I like that idea... Granted, from a 
> programmatical point of view that looks neater... But what 
> about the case where you have a file called "http:" (a legal
> filename under unix if I'm not mistaken, granted though, this
> is about as stupid as naming a script "test" then wondering 
> why it doesn't do anything when you type "test"...)
> 
> The only way that could work is if programmers could write
> handlers for open, so that it could be extended later for 
> new protocols (see below)

Of course all of this has been discussed. (See
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language-io%40perl.org/,
especially RFCs 100 and 14.)

Jon