Michele Dondi writes: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Michele Dondi wrote: > > > I rather have a much "bigger" wish for an open-like operator that to be > ^^^^^^^^ > > Of course that should be "function". > > > I'm thinking of an operator that returns a "magical" FH working like the > ^^^^^^^ > [snip] > > openmany my $fh, [list]; > > And it should assign to an undefined scalar variable, rather than > returning the filehandle, for consistency with open().
How very convenient, because in Perl 6, open *does* return the file handle. Valid Perl 6 code ahead: my $fh = open 'foo.bar'; for <$fh> { # note, not while # do stuff } Luke