On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:53:13AM -0000, Nate Wiger wrote:
> Currently, file tests cannot be grouped, resulting in very long
> expressions when one wants to check to make sure some thing is a
> readable, writeable, executable directory:
>
> if ( -d $file && -r $file && -w $file && -x $file ) { ... }
Non-novice perl programmers would probably write this as you have
below with the special _ filehandle. Perhaps you should move that to
the fore and comment on it's unreadability and general ickiness :-)
> It would be really nice if these could be grouped instead:
>
> if ( -drwx $file ) { ... }
Indeed it would.
-Scott
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