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

Perl6 Rfc Librarian <[email protected]> writes:
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>   $class       -  The class from which to load the appropriate file
>                   methods, the default being an optimized IO::File.

It is far from clear that having user specify the class as an input
is always the right thing to do.

I don't like the idea of zillions of perl6 scripts getting hard-coded 
IO::File when we decide to change the class hierachy in perl6.2.

Given that this now to be "internal" in some sense, perhaps it is 
appropriate for perl to look at what it just opened and set the 
class accordingly - i.e. if you open a disk file you get something 
IO::File-ish, if you open a directory you get something IO::Dir-ish,
a named pipe you get something where seek() either dies or does sfio-like
fake seek of shadow buffer and a "tty" could have extra methods
to give access to stty(1) like things.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.