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

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From:
Nathan Wiger
Date:
September 18, 2000 08:35
Subject:
Re: RFC 100 (v2) Embed full URI support into Perl
Message ID:
39C63422.F3B39F4C@wiger.org
Hildo Biersma wrote:
> 
> > 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 :-)

I'm not sure that URIs are a user-space matter. They're a widely
accepted portable standard for spelling out resource locations. They
also make this:

   $htdoc = open "http://www.yahoo.com" or die;

Natively possible, without bloating the language. See RFC 14 for how
this could work.

Many other languages (like PHP) support URIs natively. It makes many
things easier.

-Nate
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