id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1697,Remove the open and close opcodes,dukeleto,whiteknight,"The open and close opcodes are redundant and since the IO ops became dynops, have subtle problems, as found by PL/Parrot:

{{{ arg count mismatch: op #1119 'open' needs 17820 given 3 }}}

http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev/browse_thread/thread/d99dfeabda257cf1
http://groups.google.com/group/parrot-dev/browse_thread/thread/b8f6e3f2e0f285ff

Uses of the open/close opcode can easily be changed to use the open/close methods on the File or FileHandle PMC.


",deprecation,new,normal,,core,master,medium,,,,,,all