On Monday, 28 April 2014 17:44:51 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > Oh, I got that – I just got sidetracked with the general language design > issue. I think we're better off just sticking with open as it is. Either > way it will be unfamiliar to some people – at least using open like this > will be familiar to people coming from Ruby (not an insubstantial segment > of programmers). Calling it withfile is a bit weird because the main thing > that the function call does is open the file for you. It's just that it > also closes it for you too and the binding is scoped to just the region > where the file is open. >
Fair enough. If this is to be the general convention, then `with_rounding` and `with_bigfloat_precision` could be combined into the relevant `set_*` methods.
