On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:10:20AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Autothreading, even if enabled by default, doesn't happen until a > junction is created and used somewhere. Thus the only time our hypothetical > new programmer would be forced to become aware of junctions (without > himself/herself having created a junction) is when he/she calls some > routine that chooses to generate and return a junction on its own.
Like when he uses a module from CPAN that uses junctions (as an implementation detail of the module that just happens to be exposed). Or when the module that he has created and released to CPAN starts getting used with code that uses junctions and his users discover bizarre behavior. > That isn't likely to happen often. Perhaps. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
