On 6/13/05, Humberto Massa Guimarăes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, if you can do it with Perl without overhead, you can of > > course also do it without Perl without overhead. In that case the > > 'structured' support would be included > > Not exactly. Don't get me wrong, object component technology is a > great thing, standing just next to sliced bread in the list of great > things, but (just like sliced bread) it does not cure cancer. > > When I do my example inside of Perl, I am supposing whatever objects > or handles the Perl interpreter has stay inside the interpreter's > process; when you do a pipe like > > monad-ls *.ab | monad-fields name, size | monad-tableout
If you do a pipe like that. But the functionality you showed in Perl could also be done completely inside ls itself.