On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:13, Mark Reed wrote:
> On 2005-05-02 15:52, "Juerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Gaal Yahas skribis 2005-05-02 22:25 (+0300):
> >> > open 'ls', '|-'; # or even
> >> > open 'ls', :pipe => 'from'
> >
> > I dislike the hard-to-tell-apart symbols '<' and '>' for modes. 'r' and
> > 'w' are much easier, and get rid of the awful left/right "mnemonic" that
> > fails to make sense to GUI users.
> >
> Holy matter of opinion, Batman. �<� and �>� are much easier to tell apart
> than �r� and �w�;
As far as matter of opinion... yeah, I'm seeing a lot of that recently.
I would expect "open" to be a bit of an anachronism in P6, but still
used fairly often. For the most part, I would expect that:
my IO $read_fh = '/some/path' => 'r'; # Get an IO::File (is IO)
my IO $write_fh = '/other/path' => '>'; # Get IO::File
my IO $pipe_fh = 'program args' => $IO::ReadPipe; # Get IO::Pipe
my IO $sock_fh = 'http://www.perl.org/' => $IO::URI; # Get IO::Socket
would just DWIM. But, perhaps I'm expecting too much...
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