Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Nicholas Clark]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:58:01PM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:39:25 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Why the urge to move it out of the core? Should perl6 be like Python,
> >where you first need to do a gazillion imports before you can do anything
> >useful? Say goodbye to quick one-liners then.
> 
> It doesn't have to be like that. Functions that are not in the core can
> still be automatically loaded, but only if your code actually uses them.
> That could make the perl kernel a lot smaller than it is now, and
> hopefully, make it load faster.

I agree

dbmopen() already loads AnyDBM_File to do the real work without the
user (or script) knowing, so this idea could be extended.

Nicholas Clark