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Organization: a) Discordia b) none c) what's that?
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:05:33 EDT
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>[1] This RFC does not take a firm stance on eliminating
>$|, $/, $\, and friends. However, this approach to handling
>default input and output does mean they are no longer needed.
>I do think they should go, but this RFC does not require it.
I vehemently disagree with this filehandle object nonsense.
This is Perl, not Java, not Python. Everyone together Purrl... :-P
Okay so why do I disagree?
a) It breaks old stuff. This is always bad
b) It forces your notions of programming methodologies upon others.
I don't like OO. It's good for data, but that's it IMHO.
If you want OO files, use some IO packages...
c) You're not fixing a problem (if it ain't broke don't fix it).
And if you insist on fixing it, you'd damn well make it better.
So far this is all a one to one exchange. (see part a)
d) I like filehandles as barewords
it makes them stick out
they are in their own namespace, not encroaching upon my
scalars (This goes for highlander vars as well, this is
yet another thing that Perl excels at above most other
languages. Seperate namespaces allowing me to have @F, $F,
and %F, makes it easy for the lazy programmer to not have to
conceive a new name for a variable.)
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