On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:15:02AM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:47:24PM -0600, tchrist@chthon.perl.com wrote: > > >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]; > > > > Then you could say good-bye to portable Perl scripts. > > Not necessarily. We can offer a configuration for "standard portable > perl", but also offer the option to build a sleek customized version > for embedded applications. I hope that every keyword could be (although not necessarily would be) implemented as a pure-Perl external module. Peace, * Kurt Starsinic (kstar@orientation.com) ---------- Senior Network Engineer * | `People keep pretending they can make things deeply | | hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. | | Everything is deeply intertwingled.' -- Ted Nelson |