On 09 Aug 2000 09:40:29 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
>> Now, what you can do, is stat() on the filehandle, and pick out the
>> device ID and the inode number. That combination is unique for each
>> file.
>
>And what happens when its a tied filehandle? Or are we going to
>require that the tying clas
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:43:29 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>
> >> I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
> >> the filename instead.
> >
> >Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
> >version of the open() RFC as a possible
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:44:10PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:32:26 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
> >I sincerely hope you really mean "Let's make ``open() or die''
> >optional" Exceptions should be integrated into the language but Ye
> >Olde "returns undef on error"
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:32:26 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>I sincerely hope you really mean "Let's make ``open() or die''
>optional" Exceptions should be integrated into the language but Ye
>Olde "returns undef on error" should still be available as well.
>
>
> try { $fh = open("foo")
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:51:25PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:12:27 -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> >and I'll breathe a big sigh of relief when I
> >can just add "use Fatal qw(:all);" to the top of all my perl scripts
> >and forever more ditch all the " or die ..." clauses.
>
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:12:27 -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
>One of the most valuable features was that the very large majority
>of the helper routines I used, were simply wrappers around the
>standard facilities, that didn't require any error checking: the
>routine succeeded, or it printed a suitable
2000-08-07-20:43:29 Nathan Wiger:
> > I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
> > the filename instead.
>
> Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
> version of the open() RFC as a possible use of RFC 49's
> soon-to-be-renamed STRING method.
>
> Now I know I h
Hildo Biersma wrote:
> Jon Ericson wrote:
> > You misunderstand. I want to write this:
> >
> > open my $file, '/path/to/file' or die "can't open $file: $!";
> > # code passes
> > # /path/to/file is removed by another process
> > # dang! what file did I open?
> > print "I opened $file\n"
Jon Ericson wrote:
>
> You misunderstand. I want to write this:
>
> open my $file, '/path/to/file' or die "can't open $file: $!";
> # code passes
> # /path/to/file is removed by another process
> # dang! what file did I open?
> print "I opened $file\n"; # ahh! that was it
As cool as
Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:43:29 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> >> I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
> >> the filename instead.
> >
> >Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
> >version of the open() RFC as a possible use of RFC 49's
> >soon-
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:09:52PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:43:29 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>
> >> I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
> >> the filename instead.
> >
> >Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
> >version of the open
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 17:43:29 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>> I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
>> the filename instead.
>
>Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
>version of the open() RFC as a possible use of RFC 49's
>soon-to-be-renamed STRING method.
>
> I'd rather have a filehandle stringify to
> the filename instead.
Great minds think alike. :-) I was actually going to add this to the new
version of the open() RFC as a possible use of RFC 49's
soon-to-be-renamed STRING method.
Now I know I have at least I have one supporter! ;-)
-Nate
[Reply to perl6-language-io as this is an I/O
related.]
Michael Mathews wrote:
>
> Here's a thought. Wouldn't this be cool (see below)?
The idea is that in
> Perl 6 you should be able to read from a file handle
one character or one
> line at a time (just like you can in Perl 5) BUT if
you just g
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