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Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 20:19:05 -0700
Subject: Re: object.enable() anti-pattern
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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> I think where things went pear shaped is when you made the statement:
>
>>> There is no sensible use-case for creating a file OBJECT unless it
>>> initially wraps an open file pointer.
>
> That's a pretty absolute point of view.  Life is rarely so absolute.

In the old days, it was useful to have fine-grained control over the
file object because you didn't know where it might fail, and the OS
didn't necessarily give you give good status codes.  So being able to
step through the entire process was the job of the progammers.

Now, with languages so high like python and hardware so common, it
almost is never necessary, so he has some point.   A closed file
pointer is useful from a OS-progamming point-of-view though because
you generally never want to leave files open where they'd block other
I/O.


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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington