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

[Joe McMahon]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> > Pick one:
> > 
> > 1)  Filenames that end with a '/' are directories and those that don't
> > are files.  (Both examples are files.)
> 
> No, too restrictive. I don't like this and would hate having to remember
> it.
>  
Plus the non-"/" separated filename conventions (MacOS in
particular) would not work well with this. "/" has no relationship to
directory in MacOS. Colon, on the other hand, does. 

I think it's better not to assume anything about directory separator
character. Perhaps a filespec pragma might be useful?

  use filespec MacOS;   # Perl now "knows" to use ":" as the 
                        # directory separator
  
  use filespec VMS;     # include versioning, etc

  use filespec;         # slash as "usual" (?)

and so on.

 --- Joe M.