Without -yet- commenting on the File/OS/Filesystem issue, this bit of code
is either substantially wrong or just a convenience wrapper around what's
really going on:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:10:50PM +0000, Alberto Simões wrote:
> $P0 = new .Path("/foo/bar")
[...]
> $P0.is_dir()
> $P0.is_file()
It is necessary that Parrot's filesystem interface make user-visible the
_event_ of measuring the attributes of a path _or_ an already open
filesystem object (e.g. calling stat() or fstat()). It must also represent
the bundle of measurements returned as some kind of PMC. (handwave handwave)
Perl 5 does this (fairly crudely) by returning a list of values from stat()
or lstat() which you can examine at leisure, and by special-casing the "_"
filehandle to mean "results of last stat".
The above-quoted example is only plausible if it's shorthand for, e.g.:
$P1 = $P0.stat # or lstat
$P1.is_dir()
$P1.is_file()
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Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
