that's what the smiley was meant to imply. the reference that i directed him to quotes Larry on the future of this feature/bug. Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > by the way, this is considered a features, not a bug! :-) > > That is not really true. My recollection is that it is neither a > feature nor a bug: Nobody is going to remove it on purpose, but if a > future change to Perl breaks it, nobody is going to fix it either. -- ___cliff rayman___cliff@genwax.com___http://www.genwax.com/Thread Previous