>So my intention was to finish off the general discussion >of 'do you really need select' with that simple reminder >that when one does need select, one also needs to do some >basic defensive coding one place or the other.
This post goes a ways to showing why unthinking operator overloading is a bad idea. The fact that select has two incompatible meanings in perl is a mistake. If I were going to rename them, I'd call the default output changing command defout or default_output. As for the C lib function, I'd call it readydesc or ready_descriptors. Personally, I am curious what whoever wrote that default ouput version was thinking of when they wrote it. What's the intended usage? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
