Re: Should a dirhandle be a filehandle-like iterator?

2007-04-15 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:14:42PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: [...] -- so non-dwimmy open variants are a good idea to keep around. This could be as simple as 'open(:!dwim)' I guess, or whatever the negated boolean adverb syntax is these days open(:file), open(:dir), open(:url),

Re: Should a dirhandle be a filehandle-like iterator?

2007-04-15 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:16:32PM -0400, John Macdonald wrote: : On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:14:42PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: : [...] -- so non-dwimmy open : variants are a good idea to keep around. : : This could be as simple as 'open(:!dwim)' I guess, or whatever the : negated