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From:
Abigail
Date:
October 23, 2003 02:35
Subject:
Re: new slurp module
Message ID:
20031023093433.GA19101@abigail.nl
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:58:05AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
What's ugly or not is very subjective. The speed argument doesn't
quite convince me. How often do programs slurp in lots of files?
I find neither argument a reason for including it in the standard
distribution - the standard distribution is big enough already.
Abigail
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