It is "Perl-like" and "pseudo code". You appear to have a great deal of faith in the effort and precision that was put into that smidge of "code" especially given the multiple layers of weasel words that were applied to it.
Yes, I find it completely reasonable to jump from "Perl-like pseudo code" to "a very simple 'open' should not just be assumed to be more than just a pseudo-code 'open' that looks rather Perl-like and may or may not agree with a verbatum translation into real-Perl real code in any particular subtle aspect". So, if there is a possiblity that a simple <> might run off and do system("rm -rf .."), that would be something worth calling out explicitly.
But, yes, it does hint at the possibility of magicalness in the most coy of ways. But it is also completely trounced in the amount of documentation spread over multiple places that talks about <>, -n, and -p in terms of dealing with filenames in @ARGV and showing lots of examples that clearly expect <> do deal with filenames in @ARGV and not a single example even hinting at the magicalness or any English statement even hinting at the magicalness (and nothing at all hinting at the magicalness beyond the one extra-coy connection can that be drawn after the fact, of course).
To be frank, the lack of calling out of whether or not the "Perl-like pseudo code" 'open' was magical or not is just another demonstration of the lack of realization of this subtlety at the time of implementation and of documentation. It is more suggestive of a lack of attention to this detail which is rather the opposite of the claim "See! Look! It was clearly meant to be this way all along! The documentation is obvious on that point! We must never change it!".
- tye
In reply to Re^8: magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! (coy)
by tye
in thread magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?!
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