Johan Vromans skribis 2005-04-21 8:22 (+0200): > This is exactly the point (I think) Schwern is trying to make. There > is 'open', that will do most of the time. If a novice user asks how to > open a file, you can say "Well, just 'open $fh, $file'". If you want > more than vanilla file access, there are all the other forms of open > and open parameters.
Just for the record, that's spelled $fh = open $file in Perl 6. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html