On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:42:18PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> But the structure you speak of exists only on the server. A URL as
> >> accessor reference doesn't really need to know anything about the opening
> >> of that path other than the fact that it is a URL. This renders it pretty
> >> useless as a structure to be interpreted *as* a structure as far as the
> >
> >if (open(BLAH, ">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]")) { ...
>
> You mean something like:
>
> if (open(BLAH,">:URL","mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]")) { ...
>
> Now PerlIO/URL.pm has to know the semantics of /^mailto:/.
> If it does it can do DNS lookup for MX record for north.pole and
> presumably fail and return undef.
>
> Oops sorry that is perl5 ;-)
Shoo! :-)
Having all that mess extensibly hidden in modules is okay.
> --
> Nick Ing-Simmons
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