RE: RFC 146 (v1) Remove socket functions from core

[Lipscomb, Al]

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>No idea what the internals reasons are.  Here are my reasons:
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It would be a good idea to work over the way sockets are used and maybe come
up with a better model than the C/Unix like way things are now. Having
sockets in the core makes as much sense as having the ability to open and
read disk files (early Pascal anyone?) in todays world of networked
computers.

Being able to use them as easy as files would be the real goal:

open(F,"\\server.yourdomain.net:2001");
while(<F>) 
   {
   }
close(F);

The double slash giving a clue that this is a socket.