This thread reminded me of something I'd posted a while ago:
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:23:11 +
From: Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com
To: Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru, perl6-language@perl.org
Subject: Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems
On Wed, Nov 26,
Sounds like a sound generalization to make.
bikeshedding
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth
rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
This then means that there is an implicit
$*FS.connect();
that makes the local system available to the program.
mount is the jargon to make a filesystem
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth
rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
Would it make sense to define $*FS as the implied local file system, and
thus that a bare 'open' is sugar for
my $fh = $*FS.open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r);
This then means that there is an implicit
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ruwrote:
It is normally implied that a program already has a 'local' environment,
including a 'local' filesystem. Thus the syntax
my $fn = open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r) or die $!;
implies a local file sytem.
The