On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:14:42PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > [...] -- so non-dwimmy open > variants are a good idea to keep around. > > This could be as simple as 'open(:!dwim)' I guess, or whatever the > negated boolean adverb syntax is these days ....
open(:file), open(:dir), open(:url), ... could be the non-dwimmy versions. If you don't specify an explicit non-dwimmy base variant, the dwim magic makes a (preferrably appropriate) choice. --