Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Sorry, I've just worked out that, while I'm not sure I understand your comments on RFC 051 in A2, it looks like there'll be a function where I pass it a filename and it returns the contents, and that's what I want; I presume this closes it after.
Yes. The function is called C<slurp>. See:
http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Perl6-Slurp-0.03/Slurp.pm
Damian
