On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> -io guys, I've been looking through your archives at the line discipline
> stuff and I don't see this there: what do you think? The proposal is for a
> mode that specifies a maximum number of characters to be returned by a
> getline (<>) so that paranoid programs can set it to a large number to
> prevent them taking up gobs of memory if someone throws zillions of
> characters sans newline at the input. The question of what to do with the
> part not read (throw away, or return on next read) could be another mode
> switch perhaps? I'm new to the -io list, I'm not sure if this makes sense.
I know I mentioned something similar to this when touching on line
disciplines before the line discipline discussion actually started.
Look at "Re: RFC 69 (v3) Standardize input record separator (for"
(http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language-io@perl.org/msg00069.html)
and see if :block is the same as what you're talking about.
(And I'll add, I don't think the rest of the line should be thrown
away.)
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