On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:30:22AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> I was thinking about highjacking a standard function: read ()

Giving read() semantics completely unrelated to reading a filehandle would
be a bad choice of syntax.  So would making it a keyword.  Could you do it
(mostly) via XS?


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