Michele Dondi writes:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Michele Dondi wrote:
>
> > I rather have a much "bigger" wish for an open-like operator that to be
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Of course that should be "function".
>
> > I'm thinking of an operator that returns a "magical" FH working like the
> ^^^^^^^
> [snip]
> > openmany my $fh, [list];
>
> And it should assign to an undefined scalar variable, rather than
> returning the filehandle, for consistency with open().
How very convenient, because in Perl 6, open *does* return the file
handle. Valid Perl 6 code ahead:
my $fh = open 'foo.bar';
for <$fh> { # note, not while
# do stuff
}
Luke
