Re: RFC 14 (v3) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-16 Thread Tim Jenness
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote: > Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > > > You forget that open() handles all the magic. "| ...", " ...|", and > > the rest of the family. Sysopen specifically doesn't. So one could > > easily (and does) use open to do the magic, and then uses sysread/syswrite > > to

Re: RFC 14 (v3) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
> Random thoughts: > > open "http://www.perl.com"; > open "http://www.perl.com?foo=bar&baz=blat"; > open "http://www.perl.com", %args; > open "http://www.perl.com", { mode => 'POST' }, %args; > > Hmm. I think that "modes" should be made explicit rather than relyi

Re: RFC 14 (v3) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

2000-08-16 Thread Nathan Wiger
Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > You forget that open() handles all the magic. "| ...", " ...|", and > the rest of the family. Sysopen specifically doesn't. So one could > easily (and does) use open to do the magic, and then uses sysread/syswrite > to handle the dirty details of playing with a pipe. Yea