On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Feb 15, at 22:50, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote:
+=item sysopen
I vote for sysopen (and all other sys functions) to be wiped out of
existence.
Disagree -- I think these belong in IO::Unbuffered. Maybe we could make
that optional, though
I think sysopen etc. should go away, instead allowing open() to specify
unbuffered. In general anything that exposes a system file descriptor is an
abstraction violation (unless in a module which is intended to do so;
IO::Posix?).
I'm not convinced about it being an option to open, but if you said
instead that it should be an attribute on a role (IO::Openable?), then I'd
happily agree.
The original intent behind sysopen() was to allow system file descriptor mode
flags to be used; this was a workaround for perl5's open being insufficiently
flexible.
That's good to know; thanks.
:)
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