Re: RFC 73 (v1) All Perl core functions should return ob

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:33 PM 8/9/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>I don't think it will be a half million objects.
>
>Let's take stat (and all the other long list returns). The underlying
>implementation object could be a packed structure psuedohash. (Think
>DSECT.)  Then the only op would be the packed structure pseudohash
>lookup. Which would be done at compile time. (Fallbacks to the hash
>lookup if really generic.)

stat makes some sense. (local|gm)time makes some sense. The socket 
functions make some sense. The message and shared memory functions make 
some sense. Basically most of the 'advanced' functions make some sense. 
That's the problem--they all make some sense, which is a lot of code to get 
right for the .0 release.


                                        Dan

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