drieux wrote:
> yes, in the sense that it comes in the section about
>
> select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT
>
> and as long as the person stays safely with the 'simpler'
> perl select, and does not wander off into having buffered
> and unbuffered file handles, then clearly it is "out of context".
>
> But I would also argue 'no' in that the moment that one
> wanders into 'needing' to use "select", it is really not
> that long a walk off a very short pier till one has to
> remember the differences between buffered and unbuffered I/O.
I think it is much more rare than you would picture it that one has to
wallow in such esoterica. A little encapsulation can do wonders. For
instance, autoflush is not on by default. There are very good reasons to
have it off by default. There are also sometimes good reason to turn it on
sometimes. The perfect setup for the great Perl anonymous block:
{
$| = 1;
.... do stuff that really needs to be autoflushed
} # Get things back to normal
Joseph
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