On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:14:23PM -0700, Sean M. Burke wrote: > At 03:26 2002-03-18 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > >[...]Use alarm and skip the test if $Config{d_alarm} is false (see > >t/op/alarm.t for an example). If you think the infinite loop is due > >to a programming glitch, as opposed to a cross-platform issue, this > >will be enough. > > Ya know, for a while I've wished there were a rather tidier to way to ask > if something were implemented. Like perl->can_alarm, via a class "perl" > that just has a clever AUTOLOAD for these things.
Someday. *mumble* wild ideas about OS::Spec, File::System::Spec *mumble* -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One my mother once said "never eat paste my darling" would that I heeded -- stimps