Re: RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 03:52:07PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> That means that the equivalent
> functionality needs to be provided somehow in the complete standard perl6
> distribution.  It doesn't mean localtime() has to be a keyword with its
> very own opcode that is part of the core language.  It could be part of a
> module.  In fact it already is in perl5:  POSIX::localtime.

Especially as the gap between opcodes and regular subs gets smaller.
(I can imagine all sorts of things like each "compiled" perl program
gets its own local set of opcodes for the subs it uses (that can be
determined at compile time))

-Scott
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