Jonathan Lang writes:
> Also: why distinguish between "open" and "opendir"? If the string is
> the name of a file, 'open' means "open the file"; if it is the name of
> a directory, 'open' means "open the directory".
Many programs open a file from a name specified by the user. Even if
C existed,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:43:23PM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
> As I was playing around with dirhandles, I thought "What if..." (which
> is actualy sorta fun to do in Pugs, where Perl 5 has everything
> documented somewhere even if nobody has read it).
>
> My goal is modest: explain fewer things in
