Subj : Re: Announce: egachine 0.1.0
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Jens Thiele
Date : Wed Nov 24 2004 11:40 am

Shanti Rao schrieb:
> Why
> 
> File.open("Makefile",File.mode.read)
> 
> instead of
> 
> new File("Makefile",File.mode.read)

Because File.open returns a new Stream object and not a File object.

File.open is a native function but in JavaScript it would look like
File.open=function(fname,mode){
	...
	return new Stream(...);
}

Jens

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