Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:26:56PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> I tend to agree with Tom's argument here. open() is kind of funny
> anyways. Why couldn't it work like this, similar to FileHandle:
> 
>    $fh = open $filename;

Testing for failure. It's a basic tenet that system calls can be
tested for success and failure by their returned truth values. I
believe we should keep this.

system() is the warty exception.

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