On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth <[email protected]>wrote:
It is normally implied that a program already has a 'local' environment,
> including a 'local' filesystem. Thus the syntax
> my $fn = open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r) or die $!;
> implies a local file sytem.
>
> The idea of an implied local system suggests an implied local environment.
> The contents of %*ENV and @*INC seem to be assumed to be local, thought this
> is not specified. Given the development of the internet, this is an
> assumption I think should be made implicit, as well as the mechanism for
> adding remote resources via paths through a network.
>
> Would it make sense to define $*FS as the implied local file system, and
> thus that a bare 'open' is sugar for
> my $fh = $*FS.open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r);
>
Yep, that makes perfect sense. Once I have a working VFS object that could
be stored in there, that's probably the best way to go, unless someone
proposes another way between now and then.
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