Phobos packages a bit confusing

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Pelle Månsson wrote:
>> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>>> "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.
> 
> No, like 'file("foo.txt")' or 'fopen("foo.txt")'.  There's always a
> trade-off between verbosity and clarity, but names that are both
> reasonably short and reasonably unambiguous exist.
> 
	Note that 'open ("foo.txt", O_RDONLY)' is perfectly valid C code 
for opening a file (unbuffered).

		Jerome
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