On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Chris Nandor wrote: > There's also the possibility of time accepting an argument, where 0 would > be perl's time and 1 would be native time, or something. Now that's a clever idea. Hmm. I think I like it as a solution to the specific issue at hand better than the proposed time()/systime() pair. I think I'll "borrow" your suggestion for a longer posting on perl6-language :-). On the other hand, I'm not sure I like it too much as a general solution to the broader portable vs. native issue, since other functions with arguments can't be handled so cleanly. Yes, I know it's very very unfair to take your time() suggestion and try to apply it to a question like "Should unlink() on VMS unlink all previous versions (i.e. like a command line PURGE) or should it behave more like DEL and only delete the latest version? But the unlink() question is also a valid one with many of the same underlying issues. I'm currently trying to think about how to encourage us collectively to handle similar issues in similar ways. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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