On 10/6/05, Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i can't open a file and $! tells me why i couldn't open, i > can resume with an alternative handle that is supposed to be the > same > > when I can't reach a host I ask a user if they want to wait any > longer > > when disk is full I ask the user if they want to write somewhere > else > > when a file is unreadable i give the user the option to skip
I'm not bashing your idea, because I think it has uses. But I'll point out that all of these can be easily accompilshed by writing a wrapper for open(). That would be the usual way to abstract this kind of thing. Luke
