Re: [perl #1154] -pi doesn't sanely handle write errors

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:14:26PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com> writes:
> > Objections?
> [...]
> So my alternative approach would be to first sort this out, making it
> possible for a user module to completely take over <> functionality.
> Issues like error handling and safe inplace editing can then easily be
> handled with appropriate modules.

That's a clever thought.  Adding -Meditsafe (just to pick a nice pragma) to
a command line isn't as catchy as -j~ or -i'**~' but it does offer an easy
upgrade path for backward compatibility:

  eval "use editsafe"; # error OK

And you just know that Ingy will find a clever use for overloaded <>.

> = What didn't work? IIRC there were issues with not being able to
>   override eof (eof, eof() and eof(FILE)). Also, overloading <> 
>   only does scalar IO, since it ignores context.

So if we had tied eof() processing and READLINE was responsive to context,
it could work?
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• Re: [perl #1154] -pi doesn't sanely handle write errors by Morty Abzug
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