At 12:36 PM 4/10/2001 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:28:29AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > > if (-M "http://www.perl.com/" < -M "http://www.python.org/") {...}
> > >
> > > Nope. Doesn't work with other magic filenames, why should it with these?
> >
> > Because Perl6 will be better than Perl5.
> > I wouldn't mind (in fact I would expect) to see the magic power
> > level increase considerably.
>
>I dearly hope none of that elephantine bloat stands in the execution path
>of Classic Perl.
I doubt that it'll make it into the core for perl 5. It may not make it
into the core of perl 6, since it's certainly arguable that we're better
off with the LWP "go get a file into a scalar" method as opposed to a
filehandle.
Dan
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