> It is far from clear that having user specify the class as an input
> is always the right thing to do.
>
> I don't like the idea of zillions of perl6 scripts getting hard-coded
> IO::File when we decide to change the class hierachy in perl6.2.
Great point. If you see at the bottom under IMPLEMENTATION, I put:
should probably make nicknames for these modules, such as "dir" for
IO:Dir, "socket" for IO::Socket, and so forth, so a person can type:
$dir = open "/usr/bin", dir; # instead of IO::Dir
Actually, your argument makes it seem this should be the default case.
Indeed, get rid of the "IO::Dir" and "IO::Socket" altogether, and have
the person type:
$fo = open "$filename"; # file is default
$do = open "/usr/bin", dir; # opens something dir-like
$so = open "< 25", socket; # opens something socket-like
And so on. I like it a lot. It's shorter and hides stuff from the user.
Thanks,
Nate
