Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles

[Tim Jenness]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:40:30AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > >> >Modify open() and opendir() to return filehandle objects
> > >>
> > >> Here are some things that that will be a problem for:
> > 
> > >I did not see any that would be a problem.
> > 
> > It's not as convenient.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand how it could be less convenient. Maybe the
> term "filehandle object" is misleading and smacks of FileHandle. That
> wasn't the intent. I propose a new name, "fileobject", that can refer to
> something that handles any of these:

sysopen() should probably be included in the list as well.

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Tim Jenness
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