On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote: > And we help (beginners or otherwise) even less by pretending B doesn't > exists, or (worse) that it's something evil. Absolutely, but in a tutorial, it should be fine to show B briefly (so they know it exists) and point them to other reference documentation for more information if they need it. > Don't forget we all dealt well with 2-arg open for a decade and a half > without our servers being hijacked by every script that opened a file. Touché. -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next