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".
Considering the explaination mentions a reason why the code isn't quite equivalent, and that reason isn't that the open in the pseudo-code is quite different from Perls open(), and that the authors don't sanitize the filename of special characters, I find it unreasonable to assume the open in the pseudo-code is quite different from Perls open.

"See! Look! It was clearly meant to be this way all along! The documentation is obvious on that point! We must never change it!"
The reason it isn't changed isn't because it's documented, at least, that's not all of it. There's a strong tendency on p5p to not break existing code. Bug fixes can trump that, but the view on p5p is that the current behaviour is as it was intended, and not a bug.

In reply to Re^9: magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! (coy) by JavaFan
in thread magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! by repellent

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