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Tom Christiansen wrote:
>What do we get today? Bowdlerization!
>
> How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
...
> Unless you have a particular reason to use the two argument form you
> should use the three argument form of open() which does not treat any
> characters in the filename as special.
I don't see Bowdlerisation here. I see a better way to achieve the
objective.
>HELLO? What happened to the right answer that was there before?
It was superseded by this simpler right answer, when the three-argument
form of open() became available.
>But what should I expect? The perl faq is now a document that thinks
>this is somehow clear and consistent code, and it's anything but:
I agree with your problems with this one, however.
>To this day, Perl's implicit closing of files doesn't warn you of errors,
>let alone exit nonzero. This makes it do wrong thing and not even tell you
>it did them wrong.
I wholeheartedly agree with you in this gripe. I often (but, admittedly,
not always) end up writing wrappers along the lines of
sub IO::Handle::safe_print { shift->print(@_) or die $! }
sub IO::Handle::safe_flush { shift->flush or die $! }
and I wish such dying versions of I/O functions were standardised and
the norm. Proper use of the exception mechanism makes it a lot easier
to write correct programs. Roll on autodie.
-zefram
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