On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 06:43:22PM -0500, Alan Jaffray wrote: > OK. I realize what I wrote sounds like "CORE::rename should behave the > way File::Copy does now", and that's not what I meant. IMHO neither > File::Copy nor CORE::rename should be in core.
If perl was being built today, it wouldn't surprise me if rename was not in the core. It was in the core of perl1 though, and perl went through nearly seven years without a decent extention mechanism, which would have provided a better place for it. (I'm calculating that as the difference between the release of perl1 through the release of perl 5.000, according to the perlhist man page.) -- "How will I remember this day?" -- Samantha Langmead, age 4 1/2.
