>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?

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