On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, David Green<david.gr...@telus.net> wrote: > On 2009-Aug-18, at 2:29 am, Carlin Bingham wrote: >> >> chdir provides functionality that would be quite convoluted to mimic >> through manually setting $*CWD, such as changing to a relative >> directory. > > Maybe setting $*CWD just calls chdir() under the hood? Same implementation, > brand new shiny Perl-style interface!
It may seem cool, but I don't like secondary effects like that. They break the principle of least surprise. -- Jan
