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- From: tbunce@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tim Bunce)
- Subject: Burning Perl 5 Questions
- Reply-To: tbunce@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.884077@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- I have some questions about Perl 5. I've been trying to
- resist asking but I just can't hold back any longer!
-
- I know you've got better things to do Larry, but a simple
- Yes / Planned / Maybe / No on these would help me enormously in
- planning for our future use of Perl.
-
- Will it support new 'Standardized' functions (POSIX etc)? Such as:
- sysconf()
- pathconf()
- setsid()
- strftime() (I *really* want this one!)
- mmap()
- TLI funcs
- Reliable Signals (sigaction etc)
- Streams funcs (putmsg, getmsg etc)
- termios funcs (tc*)
-
- Will it support XPG3 style Internationalization?
- Locale etc.
-
- Will it be able to do something like:
-
- $bytecode = compile(' ... perl code ... ');
- execute($bytecode);
-
- And, will I be able to store such bytecodes to disk to be
- read in and executed in other perl programs?
-
- As it's designed to be more embedable (-lperl etc) how will that
- affect the licensing terms?
-
- Thankyou.
-
- Regards,
- Tim Bunce
- tbunce@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- p.s. Notice I didn't ask when you'd be releasing it :-)
-