Re: RFC 66 (v1) Shell Style Redirection

2000-08-08 Thread Jon Ericson
Matthew Persico wrote: > Jon Ericson wrote: > > open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT) || die "Can't dup stdout: $!"; > > > > I don't find this hard to read or write. I think overloading < and > > > to do this would be confusing and rarely used. > > > > Au contraire - I'd use it in a heartbeat. Besides, I be

Re: RFC 66 (v1) Shell Style Redirection

2000-08-08 Thread Matthew Persico
Jon Ericson wrote: > > Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > =head1 DESCRIPTION > > > > I think we've got file re-opening already, some how; this > > proposal overloads the less than and greater than operators > > in order that subsequent statements, > > particularly external routines that will be looki

Re: RFC 66 (v1) Shell Style Redirection

2000-08-08 Thread Jon Ericson
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > =head1 DESCRIPTION > > I think we've got file re-opening already, some how; this > proposal overloads the less than and greater than operators > in order that subsequent statements, > particularly external routines that will be looking to > a file descriptor table for

RFC 66 (v1) Shell Style Redirection

2000-08-08 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE Shell Style Redirection =head1 VERSION Maintainer: David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 8 Aug 2000 Version: 1 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 66 =head1 ABSTRACT The C pragma or a new C