--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: > . . . > Somehow the current file test syntax, 'filename' ~~ :e, looks like a not > well-though-out translation of Perl 5's syntax, -e 'filename'. > Apart from totally feeling wrong to me,
Dunno about totally. I'm still trying to get a P6 mindset, but there's a lot to be said (evidenced by how much has been said) for having an "old-fashioned" and more familiar way to do it. I'm underinformed, so I won't waste everyone's time on internals I haven't checked. > 3) I haven't look too closely at the list of proposed Perl 6 file test > operators, but Perl 5 has 29 of them. The idea of having 29 single > letter methods in class Str doesn't make me all that happy. This doesn't sound ideal, but I don't panic over it. Wrap them in the class and you get some benefits. Personally, I don't mind losing some Huffmen convenience, though; I've seldom used most of them, and even for the ones I use most I don't mind having a more descriptive name that makes me hit a few extra keys. I just want to be able to accomplish whatever it is that I need to do. > So I collected other ideas, both in my brain and in #perl6. > Some of them are: > > $str.f.exists # Str.f returns an "interpret this object > $str.f.size # as a file name" object > > $str.File.e # same, different names > $str.stat.exists # again > > stat($str, :e) # let multi dispatch handle it for us I'd prefer $str.File.exists; I'm not crazy about $str.f.whatever. =============================================================== Hodges' Rule of Thumb: Don't expect reasonable behavior from anything with a thumb.