On Thursday 15 July 2004 19:42, Michele Dondi wrote:
> > open '<', $foo;
> > open '>', $foo;
> >
> > is much harder to read than
> >
> > open 'r', $foo;
> > open 'w', $foo;
> Are you sure?!? I would tend to disagree... not that MHO is particularly
> important, I guess, but just to stress the fact that it is by large a
> subjective matter...
I have always felt that keeping it the same as shell scripting was a handy
thing, especially when I have been teaching it to others. It also makes
the ol' perl5
open FH, "|/usr/bin/foo";
make a lot more sense. Using something like
open "p", "/usr/bin/foo";
just wouldn't have the same ring to it. Aside from which, it gets even worse
when you consider how you would have to change:
open FH, "/usr/bin/foo|";
Greg
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UNICO Computer Systems
Melbourne, Australia.
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