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I'm surprised that Perl uses this way to open files with magic ARGV.
Why? This feature existed long before open had 3 arguments, why would it suddenly change.
There's more than 2 and 3 argument open. There's also sysopen, which would behave properly, and which exists since 5.002, dating back to March 1996.

And nobody in his right mind would expect the magic <> to be actually implemented in Perl. Do you? I think, not. C provides far less dangerous library functions.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dangerous diamonds!
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 19, 2003 at 21:47 UTC
    And nobody in his right mind would expect the magic <> to be actually implemented in Perl. Do you? I think, not. C provides far less dangerous library functions.
    Now that's just ridiculous. Larry and the perl 5 porters who wrote it expected it to behave that way, as would anyone who read the documentation.

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      Larry and the perl 5 porters who wrote it expected it to behave that way, as would anyone who read the documentation.
      But is it the sane thing for it to do? I think not. Neither does any of the other opponents, I would think (tye, Juerd).

      The most sane thing to do would be to drop support for 2 argument open, putting mode and file path into one argument, completely.

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