Re: Working Group Proposal

[email protected] (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
According to horos:
> Include keyword 'open' in perl library? [y]
> 	Include support for 'http' in 'open' [y]
> 	Include support for 'ftp' in 'open' [y]
> 	Overload 'open' with other support (https, etc)? [n];
> 
> Include keyword 'close' in perl library? [y]
> Include keyword 'select' in perl library? [y] n 

One point against: The more of Perl that's optional, the more Perl
programs become non-portable -- perhaps by accident.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <[email protected]>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K
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