perl-unicode

Re: Built-in types (was Re: In-Band Info)

1998-10-27 12:35:09
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:26:00PM -0500, John Tobey wrote:

Pardon me if this is too off-the-wall, but do you think there is room
for dropping (or at least deprecating) the "glob" as a fundamental
type?  I mean, what are globs really good for?

I could list quite a lot of things in answer to that. But instead I
would say take a look at IO::* and most of my Net::* modules and you will
see many examples of the use of GLOBs.

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