On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Michele Dondi wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Matt Diephouse wrote:
>
> > Or in Perl 5, which has to use 2 subs to have the same interface (code
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> Huh?!?
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Oops! Sorry, I hadn't noticed that! To be honest I have not checked what
the interface you proposed actually was. The way I've written it is how
I'd do it *in any case*. But then the point is *not* writing a sub to do
that, for it is a priori obvious that the are tons of WTDI: I'd be rather
interested in the possibility of doing it *the way I proposed* in the OP,
which I find conceptually appealing.
Michele
--
'Most any OS will also support either read(2) or some equivalent. Most
support read(2) directly: Win32 does, though it also has its own set
of functions, in the classic Microsoft fashion of not doing a thing
well once when you can do it badly five times.
- Ben Morrow in clpmisc, "Re: Perl's read() vs. sysread()"
