Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Ideally [at least, what I would like], managing a file on a remote resource should be the same as managing one locally, eg. my Amazon $fn = open($path-to-input-file-location/$file-name, :r) or die $!; for $fn.readlines { }; $fn.close; my Google $fn =

Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-10 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: Ideally [at least, what I would like], managing a file on a remote resource should be the same as managing one locally, eg. my Amazon $fn = open($path-to-input-file-location/$file-name, :r) or die $!; for

Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thursday, June 10, 2010, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote: I agree it should be similar to normal FS interactoin to make matters as intuitive as possible, but I horrified by the idea of overloading open() that way But open is already overloaded in p5, with pipes etc. We don't want to

Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-10 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jun 10, 2010, at 07:22 , Leon Timmermans wrote: I agree it should be similar to normal FS interactoin to make matters as intuitive as possible, but I horrified by the idea of overloading open() that way. That's a PHP mistake I wouldn't like seeing repeated. If you want open to do something