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*


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