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

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> >> How about this?
> >> 
> >>    open '/etc/passwd';             # file
> >
> >OK
> >
> >>    open '/usr/local/bin/';         # directory (note the trailing '/')
> >
> >Portability, not all platforms use /

Hmm.  So that would be

        open 'file://etc/passwd';
        open 'dir://usr/local/bin';

with the default open method being "file"?

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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