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

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FGFrancis Galiegue <fge@one2team.com>
Date
May 4, 2009, 06:53 UTC
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Le lundi 04 mai 2009, vous avez écrit : [...]

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> > 
> > 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.

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

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Message 11 of 24 in “cleanups for git-send-email”
  1. 0/6 cleanups for git-send-emailBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  2. 1/6 Remove return undef from validate_patchBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  3. 2/6 Remove function prototypes from git-send-email.perlBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  4. 3/6 Remove return undef from ask()Bill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  5. 4/6 Add explict return to end of subroutinesBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  6. 5/6 Remove mix of high and low-precedence booleansBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  7. 6/6 Remove bareword filehandles in git-send-email.perlBill Pemberton, Apr 29, 2009
  8. Jeff KingMay 3, 2009
  9. Francis GaliegueMay 3, 2009
  10. H.Merijn BrandMay 4, 2009
  11. Francis GaliegueMay 4, 2009
  12. H.Merijn BrandMay 4, 2009
  13. 5/6 Re: Remove mix of high and low-precedence booleansNicolas Sebrecht, Apr 29, 2009
  14. Bill PembertonApr 29, 2009
  15. Jeff KingMay 3, 2009
  16. Jeff KingMay 3, 2009
  17. Jay SoffianMay 4, 2009
  18. Jeff KingMay 3, 2009
  19. Jeff KingMay 3, 2009
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2009
  21. Bill PembertonApr 29, 2009
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2009
  23. 0/6 Re: cleanups for git-send-emailNicolas Sebrecht, Apr 29, 2009
  24. Andreas EricssonApr 30, 2009

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