In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:04:50AM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
> : Is there going to be a Perl 6 equivalent to $ARGV (the current filename
> : for the ARGV filehandle)?
>
> Hmm, well, we did away with unsigiled filehandles, and
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:45:26PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: Right. Something akin to P5's $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} would
: also work, but that never seemed to be quite the right way to do that,
: to me.
Never seemed quite right to me either. Er, except way back when it did... :/
In
On 5/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I think I prefer a more significant difference between the default
: targets and the POSIXy std* values that they are initialized to, like
: the Ruby notion of using global variables initialized to named
: constants, e.g. $stderr starts out as e
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: On 5/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >The plan introduced in A06 was to leave $*('IN'|'OUT'|'ERR') bound
: >to stdin, stdout, and stderr (which can still be dickered with on
: >the POSIXy level, of course), and instead em
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:04:50AM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
: Is there going to be a Perl 6 equivalent to $ARGV (the current filename
: for the ARGV filehandle)?
Hmm, well, we did away with unsigiled filehandles, and renamed @ARGV
to @*ARGS, so $*ARGS is presumably the magical filehandle, which m
On 5/1/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The plan introduced in A06 was to leave $*('IN'|'OUT'|'ERR') bound
to stdin, stdout, and stderr (which can still be dickered with on
the POSIXy level, of course), and instead emulate p5's select(FH)
using a global variable $*DEFOUT for the default
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:26:38AM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: On 5/1/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I was thinking about default filehandles yesterday. select() doesn't
: >seem to be around except as an "Unfiled" function in S16.
: >
: >Then, as I was looking at
: >
: > .say( "H
On 5/1/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was thinking about default filehandles yesterday. select() doesn't
seem to be around except as an "Unfiled" function in S16.
Then, as I was looking at
.say( "Hello World" );
At various times, I have seen something to the effect of each of
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:00:00AM +0100, Smylers wrote:
: That'll make it easy for people porting PHP scripts to Perl 6 -- in
: particular for those wanting to port the security hole where a CGI
: parameter is used to form part of a filename opened by a script but a
: malicious user can supply a U
On 5/1/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What are the situations in which a programmer really needs to open
something but doesn't know wether that thing is a file, a directory, or
a URL? I'm still unpersuaded this is sensible default behaviour.
Lots of times. It's an agnosticism, meaning
Is there going to be a Perl 6 equivalent to $ARGV (the current filename
for the ARGV filehandle)?
This is something I wanted to use in an example in the Learning Perl 6
filehandles chapter:
http://www.learningperl6.com/Chapters/11.filehandles.html
I was thinking about default filehandles yesterday. select() doesn't
seem to be around except as an "Unfiled" function in S16.
Then, as I was looking at
.say( "Hello World" );
and
$ERR.say( "Hello standard error" );
I figured this might work, and does. Topicalizing a filehandle kinda
John Macdonald writes:
> open(:file), open(:dir), open(:url), ... could be the non-dwimmy
> versions. If you don't specify an explicit non-dwimmy base variant,
> the dwim magic makes a (preferrably appropriate) choice.
That'll make it easy for people porting PHP scripts to Perl 6 -- in
particula
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