On Thursday, 3 March 2016 at 09:33:38 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Am Thu, 03 Mar 2016 09:09:38 +0000
schrieb Markus Laker <[email protected]>:
* It can open files specified at the command line. It can do
a simplified version of what cat(1) does and many Perl
programs so, and open a file specified by the user or fall
back to reading from stdin. There's also a convention that
the user can type "-" to mean stdin or stdout, depending on
the open-mode you specify.
The rest of this list sounds quite good, but please reconsider
automatically opening files:
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7130-the_perl_jam_2
No one wants to watch a 40 minute video just to find out what
your point is.
I guess the scenario can't happen in D as our open file methods
won't execute programs (!) but still....
But still? What other problem is there? What does it matter
whether the command line parser opens the file or some other part
of the program does?
