On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:42:29PM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: These are my opinions. If Dan contradicts me, he wins.
> 1) Nick Ing-Simmons' Perl IO for Perl5 > a) Could it easily support the features that Dan wants in Parrot IO > such > as async stuff? Yes. > b) Does it represent as an abstraction what we want as an API for > Parrot? Yes. > c) Is there a copyright issue? Yes. Maybe. No. IANAL. > d) If (a&b&c) has anyone approached Nick about porting? NAFAIK. > 3) Perl IO has conditional compilation for using stdio. Dan has said no > STDIO > but are we going to abandon conditional support for Parrot? I say we ditch STDIO. > 4) For platforms out there with broken or no async IO support, do we > emulate > async (background thread or something) or just say, "tough!?" Emulate. -- fga is frequently given answers... the best are "Date::Calc", "use a hash", and "yes, it's in CPAN" or Data::Dumper or mySQL or "check your permissions" or NO Fmh THAT'S WRONG or "You can't. crypt is one-way" or "yes, i'm single" or "I think that's a faq." or substr! or "use split" or "man perlre" - #perl
