Phobos packages a bit confusing

Pelle Månsson pelle.mansson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 23:40:51 PST 2009


Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Pelle Månsson wrote:
>> File looks like a constructor. You are not constructing a file you open
>> for reading.
> 
> "open" by itself is ambiguous.  What are you opening?  A window?  A
> network port?  I think the word "file" needs to be in there somewhere to
> disambiguate.
> 
> 
Something like new BufferedReader(new FileReader("foo.txt"))? It's quite 
unambiguous.

I'll rather have open as a file-opening function.



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