Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[Adam Turoff]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:31:56PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > So URLs are not
> > literals, they have structure, and only thinking of them as filenames
> > may be too simplistic.
> 
> Yeah.  But Rebol manages to deal with them.

I doubt it.  telephone:?  fax:?  lpp:?  callto:?  uuid:?

If Rebol can handle all of those URL schemes, why bother with Perl
in the first place?

> I don't know if this is something we want to follow Rebol's
> lead on, but it's something to look at.

Sounds like if there's a 'use url;' clause in use, then the standard
three (mailto:, http:, ftp:) might be available, whereas other
URL schemes would need different declarations (use url::dns;).

Z.