At 10:54 AM 7/25/00 -0400, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: >On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:46:22PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote: > > I'll just say that "I disagree". I don't think you should EVER have > > to recompile your perl binary to get something a program author > > thought would be available in THEIR perl binary. > > > > A perl program should work "anywhere" unless the end-user has > > explicitly removed functionality from his/her perl-binary. > > Think embedded systems. Think handhelds. Think bleeding-edge >experimentation. Think Penguin. Think Safe. Think Different. Think working group for language capability partitioning, since it's off-topic here, though a very useful topic. (Think "Dan is finally realizing exactly how *big* the little area he volunteered for is"... :) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk