Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-16 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Admittedly, it does look cooler, but consider this: > > open 'http://www.yahoo.com/'; > open 'https://www.etrade.com/';# what module? https? Yes - if you don't have one it fails "https protocol not found". > >No matter what, you're going to h

Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-16 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >What about native extensions? I think VMS (and the old TOPS10) had versions >as part of the file name. > >Do URIs have this capablity? > >And what does a read of a directory return? URIs or Native? Relative URIs I assume - what are (hopefully) indistingu

Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-05 Thread Nathan Wiger
> If it is possible to get both the higher level and the lower level > implementation layers to be active at the same time would be great. > > But don't lose the access to the bare metal. Sorry, looks like I should have included an example on sysopen(): # Open files like sysopen() $fo = o