object.enable() anti-pattern

[Mark Janssen]

>> 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.
>
> I don't know what you mean by the "old days", but a couple of decades
> ago, there were no such things as "file objects".

My apologies.  I used the word "object" when I shouldn't have.

> I'm beginning to wonder if you and Dihedral are swapping notes.
> Dihedral's been sounding fairly coherent lately.

Dihedral...  That's my dream-self.  Where did you encounter him?  heh

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MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington