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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> There's also the possibility of time accepting an argument, where 0 would
> be perl's time and 1 would be native time, or something.
Now that's a clever idea. Hmm. I think I like it as a solution to the
specific issue at hand better than the proposed time()/systime() pair.
I think I'll "borrow" your suggestion for a longer posting on
perl6-language :-).
On the other hand, I'm not sure I like it too much as a general solution
to the broader portable vs. native issue, since other functions with
arguments can't be handled so cleanly.
Yes, I know it's very very unfair to take your time() suggestion and try
to apply it to a question like "Should unlink() on VMS unlink all previous
versions (i.e. like a command line PURGE) or should it behave more like
DEL and only delete the latest version?
But the unlink() question is also a valid one with many of the same
underlying issues. I'm currently trying to think about how to encourage
us collectively to handle similar issues in similar ways.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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