2.2 open

[Robin Becker]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203241727480.20510-100000 at cens.ioc.ee>, Pearu
Peterson <pearu at cens.ioc.ee> writes
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>> So open is now a file? That seems a bit odd to me.
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>Correction: open is the type of file.
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>> It seems that some built ins now have the type of the object they
>> create. Pretty weird logic.  
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>Correction: some built ins are the type of the object they create.
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>Notice that in 2.2 types and classes are unified.
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yes I heard about that, but the semantics seem strange to me.
open is not a file it is a function that produces an open file. It's now
not even amongst the built ins.

what does X==type(X()) imply?
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Robin Becker