[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14375 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-04-16 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Apr 16 09:59:02 2007 New Revision: 14375 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: Module names must respect case sensitivity even on case-insensitive systems. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod ===

Re: Should a dirhandle be a filehandle-like iterator?

2007-04-16 Thread TSa
HaloO, Jonathan Lang wrote: But then, a file handle doesn't behave exactly like "standard in" or "standard out", either (last I checked, Perl 5 won't do anything useful if you say "seek STDIN, 0, SEEK_END"). How should Perl 6 behave? I guess it's possible to return a lazy list that captures ST

Re: Should a dirhandle be a filehandle-like iterator?

2007-04-16 Thread TSa
HaloO, Uri Guttman wrote: [..] if dirs mapped well onto file handles they would have been mapped that way long ago in the OS. in 30+ years that hasn't happened afaik. Hans Reiser is promoting just the unification of files and directories in his Reiser4 filesystem. In particular does it support