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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:55:46PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > 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. Yes, and that would be a shame. An alternative would be to have the choice whether such features go in the core, or in some load-on-demand module. Then you have to option to, at the cost of some runtime overhead, combine both things. A small perl, but still portable, as it will load modules if needed. Abigail