Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[abigail]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:07:18PM -0800, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> 
> But the big problem is that there's a lot of stuff that's based off of
> time() right now, like stat(), lstat(), etc, etc. When you think of the
> cascading effects of changing Perl's timekeeping it gets really, really
> sticky.

I don't see this problem, unless you plan to write a filesystem in Perl.
Surely Perl asks the OS for l?stat() instead of keeping track of it itself?


Abigail