On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:49:52PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> I think the Mac:: category could be read as 'Macish'.
>
> Same goes for all the platform specific categories. Spawning Macish::,
> Win32ish::, VMSish::, Solarisish:: categories would not be good!
>
> Certainly if I wanted to read a Mac file I'd look in the Mac category.
How would one determine if Win32::Registry uses the Win32 API to query
the registry database or if it can read .reg files directly and
reimplements registry API? There are over 100 Win32 modules on CPAN,
all of them require the underlying Win32 API and will not work
otherwise. Why would one assume that some of them might be useful on
the other platforms (and practically useless on win32.)
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