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From:
wolverian
Date:
July 7, 2005 10:18
Subject:
File.seek() interface
Message ID:
20050707171840.GA4320@noesis.saunalahti.fi
Hello,
gaal is porting the Perl 5 filehandle functions to a Perl 6 OO
interface. The Perl 5 interface with global constants from Fcntl strikes
me as severely lacking in elegance and OO.
$fh.seek(-10, SEEK_END);
Instead of globals, how about a :from adverb?
$fh.seek(-10, :from<end>);
Or maybe we don't need such an adverb at all, and instead use
$fh.seek($fh.end - 10);
I'm a pretty high level guy, so I don't know about the performance
implications of that. Maybe we want to keep seek() low level, anyway.
Subject to change when it comes to the Perl 6 Unicode semantics, of
course. :)
Any thoughts/decisions?
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wolverian
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