[Reply to perl6-language-io as this is an I/O
related.]
Michael Mathews wrote:
>
> Here's a thought. Wouldn't this be cool (see below)?
The idea is that in
> Perl 6 you should be able to read from a file handle
one character or one
> line at a time (just like you can in Perl 5) BUT if
you just g
Just a quick tangential comment: it should be possible to specify the
maximum number of characters that a readline() will do on a filehandle. I
couldn't find this in IO::Handle which seems to be where the user-defined
line disciplines are inheriting their methods? Anyway, obvious application
...and as for matching regexen against streams, I have a more general
proposal for matching against subroutines that should allow for that
as a special case.
Damian
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:16:22AM -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
> Here's a thought. Wouldn't this be cool (see below)? The idea is that in
> Perl 6 you should be able to read from a file handle one character or one
> line at a time (just like you can in Perl 5) BUT if you just go ahead and
> use
