On Friday 10 December 2010 07:48:43 Uri Guttman wrote: > perl isn't strict about many things but the perl community does have > many conventions. one of which is using the sub new for object > constructors. you will not get far in the perl world if you buck the > tide of things like that. any other good ideas you may have will be > tainted by this one. use new() and drop the create() stuff. also there > is a perl builtin called creat() (a wrapper to the unix syscall). so > your name has even more confusion potential. >
I wasn't aware that creat() existed: {{{ shlomif:~$ perldoc -f creat No documentation for perl function `creat' found }}} And I cannot find "creat " anywhere in perldoc perlfunc. There is a POSIX::creat() though. One should note that normally sysopen is preferable over POSIX::creat(). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ Chuck Norris can make the statement "This statement is false" a true one. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/