Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Damian Conway wrote: > One might argue that it would be more useful to return a result object whose > boolean value is the success or failure, whose numeric and string values are > the number of files *un*changed, and whose list value is the list of those > *un*changed files. > > Then you could wri

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Damian Conway
Gabor Szabo wrote: Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to write up some proposal here. So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in Perl6 as well with slight modifications. LIST = chmod MODE, LIST 1) In list context it would return the names of the file

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 3/25/06, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess > > .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files > > That seems to be implying a chmod method on all strings, and al

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess > .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files That seems to be implying a chmod method on all strings, and all lists. Assuming chmod doesn't get special favours, how many m

UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to write up some proposal here. So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in Perl6 as well with slight modifications. LIST = chmod MODE, LIST 1) In list context it would return the names of the files successfully ch