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

[email protected] (Piers Cawley) 10 Aug 2000 08:35:18 +0100
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.io
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]> writes:

> Graham Barr <[email protected]> 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

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Piers