On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 10:27:17PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 10:24 PM 8/12/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > >>>>> "NW" == Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >NW> just deal with filenames universally this would be a big win (leave
> >NW> acls, permissions, versions, etc to something else).
> >
> >The VMS (and TOPS20) advocates will scream here. Versions are part of
> >the file name. The default is the latest version. But the filesystem
> >automatically versions files.
> >
> >Hmm, if we support versioning files, will perl have to support emacs
> >versioned files? /foo/bar/bash.c.~356~
>
> "have to" is awfully strong, but it's a reasonable thing to do. Whether
> it's too specialized to be worth it's a separate issue, of course.
I agree with Dan: people do seem to get into "have to" mode awfully
soon and easily. The proposed framework is supposed to make it easy
to handle file names and make Perl internals (well, not internal-
internals, but the IO layer) better support multiplatform situations,
both when scripts have to run on multiple platforms, and when
an application is running on multiple platforms _simultaneously_,
servers-clients, peers-peers, etc.
> Dan
>
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