Re: try/catch (Was: Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles)

[Graham Barr]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:09:13AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> This is my argument against obsolescing the general-purpose socket() et al.
> syscalls in deference to the IO::Socket stuff: 

Absolutly. A high level API is ok for those who want it. But you should
never take away the low-level stuff.

> You don't know what blew
> up, and lack fine-grained control.  (There's also the matter of being 
> somewhat non-useful for UDP.)

Thats just because IO::Socket is done wrong

Graham.