Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

2000-08-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>It seems that this issue is definitely worth a quick RFC - something >like "proposal to return filehandles from open/opendir rather than supply >as arguments". What about the pids that come back from begotten processes, as in open(FILTER, "| cat -v | sort | lpr") or open(MESELF, "|-")

Re: inline mania

2000-08-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >At 05:39 PM 8/2/00 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > >>On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> > > >> > Reference counting is going to be a fun one, that's for sure. > >> > > >> > I'd like

Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

2000-08-03 Thread Hildo Biersma
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > [I might join perl6-language some day, but until then, please CC me on all > Time::Object related messages] > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:14:22 +0100 (BST), Matt Sergeant wrote: > > >I used to be a C programmer myself (well OK, I was a C++ programmer...), > >but I'd rat