> Do-What-Scheming-Pony-Means layer on top of my rude and ugly. At first I thought DWIM was "Dylan Window Interface Manager". "Prefix forever", Dylan, sorry. :(
Really what we have here is what us Westerners call a "Mexican standoff" (viz "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"). A programmer (hereafter "the hero") wants ease of use/elegance while the language developer (hereafter "the cattle baron") wants to laze around in their travertine lined tub, smoking Cuban cigars, and refusing to modify their system. I've read enough Louis L'Amour to know there is always compromise and use a concept called "platform independence", and I'm going to use an indirection to allow either way. My wife and I figur'd this out last night while watching "Hondo". [Some kind of Scheme/C POSIX franken-code elided.] -- Stewart Milberger ^|||^ \. ./ Scheming | | Pony { }