On Nov 16, Hacksaw said: >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.
I think 'select' is an apropos name for selecting the default output filehandle. I think it's less appropriate for determining which file descriptors are ready. >Personally, I am curious what whoever wrote that default ouput version >was thinking of when they wrote it. What's the intended usage? Probably for when you're using code that you haven't written that writes to the default output filehandle. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
