Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:57:27AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:40:30AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >> >Modify open() and opendir() to return filehandle objects
> >> 
> >> Here are some things that that will be a problem for:
> 
> >I did not see any that would be a problem.
> 
> It's not as convenient.

Are you saying that piped opens returning a "filehandle" object makes
testing for failure more troublesome?  If so, I have an evil proposal
for you ... Let's make an "error" object (I hate to use that term)
that's *always* false but has some state we can get at.  This thing would
encapsulate $!, $?, and friends.  Modules (like DBI) could even add state,
but it would still be false.

-Scott
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