Hildo Biersma wrote:
>
> > Personally I hated it. And I distinctly remember saying so. And I
> > still hate it.
>
> I dislike it too. URIs are a user-space matter and should not be
> built-in to the language - put it in a module. And if you have an OS
> that implements URIs directly, well then that module becomes really
> simple :-)
I'm not sure that URIs are a user-space matter. They're a widely
accepted portable standard for spelling out resource locations. They
also make this:
$htdoc = open "http://www.yahoo.com" or die;
Natively possible, without bloating the language. See RFC 14 for how
this could work.
Many other languages (like PHP) support URIs natively. It makes many
things easier.
-Nate
