The example pseudocode was written before three-argument open existed in Perl. I fail to see how that makes for a binding decision once the recommended non-magic open came along.

I'm not going to get into the middle of the argument at this particular time of whether the behavior should be changed to use three-argument open or stay the way it is. I'm fairly ambivalent about this topic currently, partly because being a lone-wolf coder on smaller projects I have the luxury of knowing the contents of my directories really well. I cared more about the status of this feature when I was handling large numbers of other people's files on a server.

I do expect people who are making strong arguments one way or the other to have strong points, though. This particular line of argument does not appear to me to be a very strong one. If I was defending your position, I'd look for some better points to make than that the old pseudocode in the documentation shows the function that was available at the time the documentation was written.

In reply to Re^8: magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! (dock) by mr_mischief
in thread magic-diamond <> behavior -- WHAT?! by repellent

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