On Sat Nov 11 11:53:27 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I noticed that the open opcode > creates its argument if the desired file doesn't exist. > There are two variants of the open opcode: this one, and one where you can specify a mode. The default open mode at the moment is "+<" - that is, open for read and create it if it doesn't exist. You can specify another operand to open specifying the open mode "<" instead, which will just open the file and not create it.
So, I think this is not a bug - yes, we could argue all day about what the default open mode should be, but there's a perfectly good way to be explicit about you want that's only a few characters to type. :-) Jonathan
