On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:51:36PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Assuming we
: > rehuffmanize "kill" to "sendsignal" or some such, we have:
:
: "signal" is a verb as well as a noun.
:
: sub alarm ($secs) {
: { signal $*PID, Signal::ALARM }.cue(:delay($secs));
: }
:
: It even reads pretty nicely: "signal 4242".
The cultural problem is that C's ancient signal() sets a signal
handler rather than sending a signal. I figured as long as we were
trying to discourage the use of signals we might as well make it
something even longer, but clearer.
Larry
