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From:
Uri Guttman
Date:
October 23, 2003 01:58
Subject:
Re: new slurp module
Message ID:
x7d6coe3fm.fsf@mail.sysarch.com
>>>>> "AB" == Arthur Bergman <sky@nanisky.com> writes:

  AB> On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 09:30  am, Uri Guttman wrote:

  >> 
  >> i would like to propose that my module be part of the 5.10 distribution
  >> and so i think it should go under the IO::File namespace.

  AB> I see no reason for adding yet another IO module to the core. It could
  AB> just as well go on CPAN and support older perls as well.

i want to release it to cpan for all perls. it should work with as far
back as 5.005. but i think that it could be in future distributions so
it will become the common idiom for slurping instead of the slower and
IMO uglier tricks.

uri

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