On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:41:54AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > It occurs to me that one could embed the class name right in the first
> > argument:
> >
> > $perl = open 'ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/'
> > or die "ActiveState ftp site is hosed again: $!";
>
> Yeah, the next version is going to include a syntax that's very similar
> to this, although a little more Perlish:
>
> open '/etc/passwd'; # file is implied
> open ftp 'ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/'
> open dir '/usr/local/bin'
> open http 'http://www.yahoo.com/'
How about this?
open '/etc/passwd'; # file
open '/usr/local/bin/'; # directory (note the trailing '/')
open 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/'; # ftp
open 'http://www.yahoo.com/'; # http
open 'ldap://ldap.bigfoot.com/';# ldap
Of course the last three would automagically bring in the proper
modules that are part of the standard perl distribution.
-Scott
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