Re: [MacPerl] I'm back! :-)

[John Macdonald <jmacd@mail.interlog.com>]

At 5:14 PM -0600 2/24/98, Mark Manning/Simulacron I wrote:
[ ... ]
>One of the things I see as being a requirement is a change to the open
>statement for Perl.  Something like this:
>
>	open( THEFILE, "Path/File", <option> ) || die $!;
>
>Where the "<option>" would be something like HTML, BINARY, TEXT, WINDOW,
>etc....  It would make it a lot easier to deal with from a browser's
>point of view.
>
>Hmmmmmm...hmmmmmmm.hmmmmmm.  I was just thinking - this really is
>getting awfully far a field of MacPerl and more into esoteric
>discussions of things new for the world of Perl.  Matthias - do you want
>us to shut up about this?  Let me know!  :-)

Larry has many times said that eventually he would like to have:

    open HANDLE, "http://www.foo.com";

work.  You might someday get what you're asking for, without a separate
option field.

John Macdonald             jmacd@interlog.com



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