15 Feb
2006
15 Feb
'06
10:59 a.m.
If we go with two functions, I'd much rather hang them off of the file type object then add two new builtins. I really do think file.bytes() and file.text() (a.k.a. open.bytes() and open.text()) is better than opentext() or openbytes().
+1. The default behavior of the current open() in opening files as text is particularly grating. This would make things much clearer. Bill