Re: RFC 140 (v1) One Should Not Get Away With Ignoring System Call Errors

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:17:18 -0600

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.language.errors
Message-ID	<25038.967040238@chthon>

>"The first operation done on the return value of open() shall be defined()
>or you shall regret your pitiful existence."? (a flag on the scalar coming
>from open that makes any other op than defined() to die and defined() clears
>the flag)

No -- just true or false suffices.

--tom