On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:05:18PM -0500, Trey Harris wrote:
> And mix the role in to $*OS. Then call $*OS.trytolink() to get the proper
> behavior at the proper time.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those, and now $*OS might even point to
thread-specific data.
Larry
On Monday 07 January 2008 08:42:06 Trey Harris wrote:
> Then we can have roles that describe cross-cutting behavior of various
> OS's (like POSIX):
>
> my &trytolink;
> give $?OS {
> when OS::HasSymlinks { &trytolink := &*symlink; }
> when OS::HasLinks { &trytolink := &*link;
In a message dated Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Larry Wall writes:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:42:06AM -0500, Trey Harris wrote:
So $?OS isn't "the type of OS", it's *the OS*, and you can manipulate the
OS through it.
Note that $?OS is the OS that is-or-was running at compile time,
whereas $*OS is the OS r
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:42:06AM -0500, Trey Harris wrote:
> So $?OS isn't "the type of OS", it's *the OS*, and you can manipulate the
> OS through it.
Note that $?OS is the OS that is-or-was running at compile time,
whereas $*OS is the OS running right now (at run time). Those don't
have to b
