Two-arg open considered dangerous; syntax on the way out; etc.

I've also read in Perl books how great it is, so that a script that takes a "file name" argument can actually do all that stuff.

I do like the 4th argument as a hash. There can be universal "well known" names, and OS or FS specific flags that are only respected if applicable, such as { WIN32::tempfile => 1 } which would use the native temp file flag which may be somewhat different in meaning from a Linux temp file flag, etc. That is, by using a namespace-like syntax, flags can keep out of each other's way and not pollute the option space.

In reply to Re: Re: open() enhancements by John M. Dlugosz
in thread open() enhancements by John M. Dlugosz

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