>
> $$STDIN # Return one element regardless of context.
> @$STDIN # Return number of element wanted by context.
> *$STDIN # Return all element regardless of context.
>
How about
$STDIN.$ # Return one element regardless of context.
>>I'd like to see every number bundled with a "precision" attribute.
>That's not what I call a high-level language feature. People don't
>want to think about that, nor about machine-level precision issues.
>See REXX.
>In fact, I'd rather to see a painless and transparent int->float->bignum
>
Amen.
-Original Message-
From: Tom Christiansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 3:09 PM
To: Lipscomb, Al
Cc: Joe McMahon; Stephen P. Potter; Michael Maraist;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Larry Wall'
Subject: Re: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core
>That's their problem. Perl is extremely useful to Unix systems
>programmers and administrators. They are the target audience
>that Perl was initially written for, whom it was made famous by,
>and you will find that it continues to be very important to us.
>If you relegate us to take a back sea
>Perl is *not* fun when it supplies nothing by default, the way C does(n't).
>If you want a language that can do nothing by itself, fine, but don't
>call it Perl. Given these:
I agree!
Removing some of the things mentioned would turn Perl into an environment
well suited for computer science
>No idea what the internals reasons are. Here are my reasons:
It would be a good idea to work over the way sockets are used and maybe come
up with a better model than the C/Unix like way things are now. Having
sockets in the core makes as much sense as having the ability to open and
read disk
