Re: [PATCH 6/6] Remove bareword filehandles in git-send-email.perl

["H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 4 May 2009 08:53:44 +0200, Francis Galiegue <fge@one2team.com>
wrote:

> Le lundi 04 mai 2009, vous avez écrit :
> [...]
> > > 
> > > And why not go the full way and using IO::File?
> > 
> > Because that would be travelling back in time.
> > The most efficient and preferred way is three-arg lexical:
> > 
> >     open my $fh, "<", $filename or die "$filename: $!";
> >     while (<$fh>) {
> >         # ...
> >         }
> >     close $fh or die "$filename: $!";
> > 
> 
> I don't see how using IO::File is going back in time at all. It's
> a standard perl module, even in 5.10.

It was written to be able to have lexical handles and pass them around.
With the above implementation you don't need to read a 600+ line module
to have every file action go through methods that are not needed at
all, and you also do not have to read the documentation for the
deviating syntax. I'd rather stick to simple, easy and standard.

> > > my $fh = new IO::File;
> > > $fh->open("/the/file", O_RDONLY|...)
> > 
> > Why use a module for something that is neatly buit in?
> 
> Because it reads better? YMMV, of course.

Because it is more efficient? And yes, it reads better, because it is
used in a zillion places already.

> I prefer using IO::File because perl has too many keywords for its
> own good :p

In the syntax I wrote down are now new keywords at all.

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