Language question -- file = variable ?

[William Park]

Hi all,

Is there a language which (natively or not) treats a filename like a variable in memory?  For example, to increment a counter stored in a file, you would write something like
        /tmp/counter = /tmp/counter + 1
which involves both read and write to a file.  If it were normal variable, then it would involve read/write to a memory instead.

Python is the closest I can think of.  But, you need to create a method for read and another method for write.  And, typing more verbose than I would like.

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William
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