On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 at 08:02:19 +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:24:05 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur) > wrote: > > WTF is wrong with sprintf()? It's a proper tool for this job. Next > > you'll want to replace "13.57831" by "13.58" without using sprintf().
> This reminded me of something I read on > http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html : > The flip side of this is a question like ``I want to > accomplish X, but I don't want to use Y. What can I use > instead?'' Which, again, is sometimes reasonable, and then > sometimes X is closing a filehandle and Y is the `close' > function. Hey, what's wrong with that? All you have to do is set the close-on-exec on the required file, then do an "exec". It saves time on all that dull global destruction, too. Ian
