From my understanding of the problem, he's trying to make changes to a pre-existing script, without wanting to look through and modify the script line by line.

Depending on the scope of what's being changed, I could see uses for this. (you could also use it for adding some logging to the open function, without having to explicitly do it each time ... useful when debugging).

For those of us paranoid folks, we might not call the internal open directly, and have a function/method/whatever that gets called, and does whatever error checking / locking / logging / etc, that gets done universally

(and although I'm not going to claim to know exactly what singam was asking, during my undergrad, I did tech support at a university w/ a fairly large number of non-native english speakers)

In reply to Re^4: design the open function by jhourcle
in thread design the open function by singam

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