> $fh = open socket "tcp://www.perl.com:80";
This is not bad, I hadn't thought of making it URI-like. There is
already a proposal in the RFC to replace socket() with:
# Open a client socket
# By overloading < and > we can do clients and servers
$socket = open socket "< 25", PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, TCP;
@input = <$socket>;
close $socket;
As it stands, the RFC *does* propose to replace all these functions:
# Replaced by 'open dir'
opendir
readdir # dir->read instead
closedir # close instead
seekdir # dir->seek instead
rewinddir
telldir
seekdir
# Replaced by 'open sys'
sysopen
sysread # sys->read instead
syswrite # sys->write instead
# Replaced by 'open socket'
socket
setsockopt # socket->options
connect # overload <> or socket->connect
shutdown # close instead
with handlers and open().
Everyone: Before responding, please take a second to read the section
called "Function Deletions" towards the bottom of
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/14.pod, just so we don't have to rehash the same
stuff here. Thanks.
-Nate
