Re: fopen warning

[John W. Eaton]

On 17-May-2005, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

| Do you mean that:
| 
| fid = fopen("file")
| 
| would return structure, but
| 
| fopen("file")
| 
| would return just an integer?

I meant that both forms would return an integer (the file id number)
instead of the current stream object, which is a special kind of
structure with some odd properties.  For example, it is automatically
converted to a number in some contexts, so that the object that is
returned by fopen appears to behave in a mostly compatible way, even
though it is not a simple number.

jwe