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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:03:25AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> --- Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> > Naah, no new modules in the core. But I suppose that sort() called in
> > scalar context could fire up CPAN.pm to fetch it and install it.
>
> Perhaps, but if we think this through, perhaps the best "undefined" behavior would be to change
> this behavior with every release. I propose the next release do
>
> system("perldoc -f sort");
>
> Of course, perhaps we want to first check if perldoc is installed ...
We should be using an absolute path, otherwise we create a wonderful
security hole.
I suggest we setpriority(PRIO_USER, 0, 20); to reward the user for their
knowledge, on systems where setpriority is available.
Nicholas Clark