At 03:26 2002-03-18 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>[...]Use alarm and skip the test if $Config{d_alarm} is false (see
>t/op/alarm.t for an example). If you think the infinite loop is due
>to a programming glitch, as opposed to a cross-platform issue, this
>will be enough.
Ya know, for a while I've wished there were a rather tidier to way to ask
if something were implemented. Like perl->can_alarm, via a class "perl"
that just has a clever AUTOLOAD for these things.
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