Serguei Trouchelle wrote:
>  Bill Luebkert wrote:
>  
> > I totally disagree - I see nothing wrong with using the 2 arg form and
> > have always and will continue to use it.  I find the 3 arg form to be
> > the more ugly of the two 
>  
>  Can't say about "uglier" thing -- it's in the eye of the beholder, but using one parameter
 for two different things is 
>  just illogical.

Well, then there's plenty of illogical stuff in Perl.  ;)

The open is tailored after shell syntax - I suppose you'd
have a problem there too what with the piping and redirection
etc.

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