From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2001-07-09T06:13:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17510] Re: Aliases for class methods

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:07:25AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > to open the file "data" for append.  Similarly with "> file", "< file",
> > "+> file", "+< file" etc.
> > 
> > As far as I know, this syntax isn't available in Ruby,

Fwiw, I happen to think that this is a Good Thing, and I am not alone:

    http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=791771+793951+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/cvs-all/20010107.cvs-all

    This is a crutch, not a cure. The fundamental problem here is that
    open() mixes information about the type of operation to perform with
    the name of the file on which to perform that operation - which is
    very poor API design. My advice is to use sysopen() consistently
    except for these two cases: open(PIPE, "-|") and open(PIPE, "|-").

    DES
    -- 
    Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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