in reply to syntax for URI of files?

I read that Perl 6 is going to avoid the filename syntax issue by using URI's (also known as URL's) to provide a platform-independant file naming convension.
Then someone took something out of context. We're not using URI syntax to open files. We may have open smart enough to know how to deal with URLs, at least http: ones, but you certainly won't be using them for plain file access.

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Re: Re: syntax for URI of files?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Mar 07, 2003 at 17:07 UTC
    Yipes!

    I can't find it in the Apocalypse now. But I know I read something quite specific on that idea, that unifying file names across OS's by using URL syntax will eliminate some of the crud in writing portable scripts. Perhaps it didn't make it into the Apoclypse, or at least not covered yet.

    —John

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      I think it would've made it into the apocalypses already. You may have remembered something from perl6-language or one of the RFC proposals, since I recall it being proposed, but it's definitely a non-starter. Optional, perhaps, but definitely not mandatory.
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