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Re: RFC 100 (v2) Embed full URI support into Perl

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From:
Hildo Biersma
Date:
September 18, 2000 05:03
Subject:
Re: RFC 100 (v2) Embed full URI support into Perl
Message ID:
39C60483.4F1B93CA@msdw.com
> > =head1 NOTES ON FREEZE
> >
> > The only comments received were on my crappy examples, which have been
> > clarified. Everyone seemed to like the idea.
> 
> Personally I hated it. And I distinctly remember saying so. And I
> still hate it.

I dislike it too.  URIs are a user-space matter and should not be
built-in to the language - put it in a module.  And if you have an OS
that implements URIs directly, well then that module becomes really
simple :-)

Hildo
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