2009/8/18 pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl:
Author: wayland
Date: 2009-08-18 09:24:07 +0200 (Tue, 18 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 28017
+=item chdir FILENAME
+Xchdir Xcd
+
+=item chdir
+
+Gone, just set $*CWD (which throws an exception if it fails).
+
chdir provides functionality that would
2009/8/18 Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.au:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote:
It's not in the revised spec, but I think that, even though we've
revived chdir, we should still have it so that changing $*CWD will do a
chdir under the hood.
While in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI,
2009/8/18 David Green david.gr...@telus.net:
On 2009-Aug-18, at 3:27 am, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, David Green wrote:
or however that would work in P6. It may have problems, but by definition
they're the same problems as chdir() has. What am I missing?
chdir is a
2009/8/19 Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.au:
So, if P5 does it for some global (note: global != environment)
variables, then why not do it for some in P6?
Because if (for some reason) I do:
$ = 5; # Which calls setuid(5);
print $; # 5
Whereas:
$*CWD = '..'; # which
2009/8/19 Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.au:
Ok, so suppose we only allowed direct assignment to absolute paths?
That would be currently how it works.
--
Carlin
