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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
December 19, 2001 06:19
Subject:
Re: Request for comments
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20011219091750.020f3248@pop.sidhe.org
At 08:03 PM 12/18/2001 -0800, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
>--- Melvin Smith <melvins@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 3) Perl IO has conditional compilation for using stdio.
> > Dan has said no
> > STDIO
> >      but are we going to abandon conditional support for
> > Parrot?
> >      (I vote for ditching conditional STDIO support
> > because then its easier
> >           to stop thinking in STDIO terms...)
>
>Unfortunately, I don't think we can completely do without
>stdio in parrot for one reason: miniparrot. Without doing a
>full configure.pl run, the _only_ I/O API we're guarranteed
>is a basic stdio.

Ah, but we can abandon stdio completely, unless you file read/write in with 
stdio. Which is reasonable, but I don't generally count them.

> > I want comments now or else I threaten to post replies to
> > myself in a
> > creepy third
> > person way.
>
>No! Anything but that. BKS hates things like that!

Suckered into those freshmen "harmless Psych 101 experiments", I see.... :)

					Dan

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