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Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

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From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
August 10, 2000 00:39
Subject:
Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and
Message ID:
m1punhd0w9.fsf@rt158.private.realtime.co.uk
Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net> writes:

> Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> writes:
> >On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> >> How about this?
> >> 
> >> 	open '/etc/passwd';		# file
> >
> >OK
> >
> >> 	open '/usr/local/bin/';		# directory (note the trailing '/')
> >
> >Portability, not all platforms use /
> 
> Allowing URI/URL syntax can perhaps dodge the "portability" issue 
> URLs use / so if user thinks URL they think /.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Yet more reasoned criticism from me eh?

Seriously: Perl is not the web, the web is not perl

-- 
Piers
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