Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head1 DESCRIPTION
>
> I think we've got file re-opening already, some how; this
> proposal overloads the less than and greater than operators
> in order that subsequent statements,
> particularly external routines that will be looking to
> a file descriptor table for their file handles, will get from
> and give to where we want them to.
Currently you can do this sort of thing with open. From perlopentut:
open(STDIN, "< datafile")
|| die "can't open datafile: $!";
open(STDOUT, "> output")
|| die "can't open output: $!";
and from perlfunc/open:
open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT) || die "Can't dup stdout: $!";
I don't find this hard to read or write. I think overloading < and >
to do this would be confusing and rarely used.
> =head1 REFERENCES
>
> http://dev.perl.org/rfc/39.pod
> http://dev.perl.org/rfc/61.pod
perlopentut
perlfunc/open
Jon
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