I read that node and it contains one side of a debate about the merits of using three-argument open over two-argument open. In fact, it is Dominus's reply to tilly's node in which he made the statement that he "would be cautious about suggesting that people use it in any code whose use is meant to be portable."

It seems to me that tilly and I are actually falling on the same side of completely different debates. I frankly don't even see how that discussion applies to this case and I invite you to enlighten me.

I think tilly might agree with me if he were still here. Maybe not. I don't know. I wish he was here to speak for himself. Maybe someone should ask Dominus what he thinks as it was his node to which you linked.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re4: Parsing 'uptime' output by sauoq
in thread Parsing 'uptime' output by Anonymous Monk

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