On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess > <file1 file2 file3>.chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files
That seems to be implying a chmod method on all strings, and all lists. Assuming chmod doesn't get special favours, how many methods would it need to implement all the existing builtins like this? Nicholas Clark