Re: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.10 -0400 1998.08.04, Kevin Reid wrote:
>> In article <mac-perl.35b69f57.3212343@mailhost.tornado.be>,
>> bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur) wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>> >
>> >>On the other hand, if -s is supposed to return the size of a file, it
>> >>doesn't do that.
>>
>> This is a little after-the-fact, but I wonder if the parser would choke on
>> a two-letter command, for instance -ss for total file size?
>
>The second s would probably be treated as a substitution. How about -a
>(for 'all' of the file) instead?

I think adding file test operators would be Bad.  I think a simple function
or two or three added to Mac::Files would be best.

  use Mac::Files;
  $tot = total_size($file);
  $res = res_size($file);
  $dat = dat_size($file);

Of course, the name is very important.  If we choose a name like above we
risk breaking old code.

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