> I'm still in favor of moving the socket functions into Socket if for no
> other reason than it may help beat into people's heads that code like:
>
> eval 'require "sys/socket.ph"';
> eval 'sub SOCK_DGRAM {-f "/vmunix" ? 2 : 1;}' if $@;
>
> and
>
> $csock = pack('S n a4 x8', 2, 0,
Stephen P Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At this point, should I go ahead and abandon the Math/Trig and/or
> Sockets ones?
I'm still in favor of moving the socket functions into Socket if for no
other reason than it may help beat into people's heads that code like:
eval 'require "sys/
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
whispered:
| I think this is inappropriate for sin/cos/tan et. al. and possibly even
| sockets (although Win32 sockets are weird enough that it would be worthwhile)
|
| But for getpw* or shm/queue/msg or other may-not-b
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Explain why things like #ifdef HAS_SETLOCALE are not sufficient for
>this stated purpose.
Because the source has to have something like:
#ifdef HAS_SETLOCALE
...
setlocale(...)
...
#else
#endif
That does not help someone who has Locale
>Move the mathematic functions (C, C, C) from the core
>binary into a loadable module. Remove the trigonomic (C, C,
>C) functions from the binary, they can already be loaded from the
>Math::Trig.pm module.
>=head1 DESCRIPTION
>It is desirable to make the perl core binary be easy to maintain a
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Remove mathematic and trigonomic functions from core binary
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Stephen P. Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Aug 24 2000
Last Modified: Aug 28 2000
Version: 2
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