John Macdonald writes: > open(:file), open(:dir), open(:url), ... could be the non-dwimmy > versions. If you don't specify an explicit non-dwimmy base variant, > the dwim magic makes a (preferrably appropriate) choice.
That'll make it easy for people porting PHP scripts to Perl 6 -- in particular for those wanting to port the security hole where a CGI parameter is used to form part of a filename opened by a script but a malicious user can supply a URL instead and cause the program to do things very different from what it intended. What are the situations in which a programmer really needs to open something but doesn't know wether that thing is a file, a directory, or a URL? I'm still unpersuaded this is sensible default behaviour. Smylers [Apologies for the delay on this; I first tried to send it on April 15th, and only just spotted it failed to get through.]
