Re: RFC 155 - Remove geometric functions from core

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:36 AM 8/25/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >If the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are invisible and performance is at
> >worst acceptable, does it really matter how things are implemented?
>
>So long as you can still say things like
>
>     perl -le 'print scalar getpwuid(1)'
>
>and that script still continue to work unaltered, then I suppose
>not--assuming no seriously grave performance issues.

That's one of the working goals...

                                        Dan

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