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Ed Avis wrote: >Out of interest why does glob-via-shell still exist? Historical. I think it was meant to be the lazy way to get globbing, but given that Perl already has a serviceable pattern-matching engine, and the embuggerance involved in getting the shell thing to work, it's probably not saving code any more. I think it would be a good idea to move to always performing the globbing ourselves. The only trickiness in doing so is concerned with having the code located in File::Glob: miniperl needs to be able to glob without loading XS. The critical code from File::Glob would have to be present in the core proper, and there's then a choice to be made as to whether File::Glob (to implement its distinctive interfaces) should have a duplicate of that code or attempt to use the core's copy (presumably via a new core API function). -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next