Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:04 AM 8/2/00 +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:39:28PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > I like perl's smart built-in IO just fine, thanks. :) Don't mind making it
> > better, but I do mind making it optional.
>
>If we're going to do line disciplines, we need a built-in stdio replacement.
>Full ground-up rewrite, like sfio but Perlish.

Right, I know the underside will be yanked and redone. (Hopefully with 
async support on platforms that have it to do some I/O and processing 
overlap) It's not getting removed from the core language from a perl 
programmer standpoint, though. Beefed up with disciplines and stuff, rather 
than removed.

                                        Dan

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