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

[Tom Christiansen]

>I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing.

Probably not.

>So if socket() is removed from the core (the executable). Perl upon
>noticing a socket() without a user specified use that might override
>it. Will transparently make it available along with all the associated
>constants.

I've read these all as "remove from CORE::", which is seriously
scarier.  This is rather different.  I don't see why anyone would
care, module performance, whether for example using dbmopen autoloads
Any_DBMFile or whatnot.

Just try reading through the last N-thousand  of these messages.
Things blend together, and the overall impression is one of, well...
you'll have to draw your own conclusions.

--tom