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

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:50:51PM -0400, Casey R. Tweten wrote:
> open  HOME_PAGE, "> $url" or die $!;  #assuming default (as of 5.6.x) syntax
> print HOME_PAGE getprint $url;
> close HOME_PAGE;
> 
> So now we have a file called `http://my.homepage.com`.  Perhaps we want to
> parse this file, so now we have to open it up.
> 
> open "http://my.homepage.com";

So ... Don't Do That.  Besides under this proposal, if you want to
force Perl to treat that thing like a file, you can:

        $fh = open file "http://my.homepage.com";

or less verbose,

        $fh = open "<http://my.homepage.com";

> While I'm facinated by the idea of open() being so robust, I think that
> the discussion for syntax may need 1) a new list of it's own or 2) to wait
> for a while, perhaps after a decision to support this is made.

I think the decision has already been made.

-Scott
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