On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:07:06AM -0400, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> >Also, your examples don't cover this:
> > $web = open "http://www.yahoo.com", GET;
> >Remember, additional args for the proposed open handler can follow the
> >filename.
> Never saw it. How many additional arg's?
As many as it ta
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:07:04 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce
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Jerrad Pierce wrote:
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> Perl6 does not *have* to break anything, and certainly not everything.
> The prime directive should be not to break things unless necessary.
> Translation should not be a fall-back panacea. And it surely isn't perfect...
Actually, this is false. If Perl 6 worked just like
>Well, fileobjects are already in Perl 5. Most people just don't use them
>by default. But as TomC pointed out, in Perl 5 you can do this:
> open $fh, "$file";# if 'use FileHandle'
I do use them, occasionally...
>Already. These proposals just make that the default.
No the "default" is what
> I vehemently disagree with this filehandle object nonsense.
> This is Perl, not Java, not Python. Everyone together Purrl... :-P
Well, fileobjects are already in Perl 5. Most people just don't use them
by default. But as TomC pointed out, in Perl 5 you can do this:
open $fh, "$file";# i
