Re: RFC 14 (v3) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:58:34PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > >    # Open a remote webpage
> > >    $http = open http "http://www.perl.com/", GET;
> >                   ^^^^                       ^^^^^
> 
> 1) > The URL says that it's a http resource, so why do we have
>    > to tell open to use a http handler? 
> 
> a) Allows custom handlers:
> 
>    open myhttp "http://www.perl.com/";

I originally didn't like this but the more I think about it, the more
I like it ... as long as the default handler knows about URIs :-)

I'd like 

        open "http://www.perl.com";

do DWIM.  

-Scott
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