This thread reminded me of something I'd posted a while ago:
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:23:11 +
From: Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com
To: Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru, perl6-language@perl.org
Subject: Re: Files, Directories, Resources, Operating Systems
On Wed, Nov 26,
If I might offer a late viewpoint after reading the Aaron's expanded
email (attached below).
When originally I suggested using 'open' instead of 'connect', the aim
was to keep consistency with the paradigm of files on the local system.
However, as Aaron's post suggests, when dealing with
Sounds like a sound generalization to make.
bikeshedding
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth
rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
This then means that there is an implicit
$*FS.connect();
that makes the local system available to the program.
mount is the jargon to make a filesystem
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth
rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
Would it make sense to define $*FS as the implied local file system, and
thus that a bare 'open' is sugar for
my $fh = $*FS.open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r);
This then means that there is an implicit
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ruwrote:
It is normally implied that a program already has a 'local' environment,
including a 'local' filesystem. Thus the syntax
my $fn = open('/path/to/directory/filename', :r) or die $!;
implies a local file sytem.
The
