dbmopen vs tie

perigeeV has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Quoth The Camel(p.696, 3rd ed.):

The dbmopen function is really just a call to tie with the proper arguments, but is provided for backward compatibility with ancient versions of Perl.

I use dbmopen/close frequently for simple stuff. It picks the dbm library for you, quick and easy, etc. But when they use the word ancient I get an uncomfortable "deprecated in Perl 6" feeling. Y'all think I'm safe, or is using tie safer.

Thanks,
JeffK

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Re: dbmopen vs tie by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 27, 2001 at 22:26 UTC
If you're writing new code, migrate to tie. The documentation for modules like DB_File and MLBDM use tie. If you're maintaining old code, you're safe leaving dbmopen in there. For what it's worth, dbmopen is listed as deprecated in Perl 5.5.3, so it's probably going to be gone for good in Perl 6.	[reply]