Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:04:46PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > It doesn't have to be like that. Functions that are not in the core can
> > still be automatically loaded, but only if your code actually uses them.
> > That could make the perl kernel a lot smaller than it is now, and
> > hopefully, make it load faster.
> 
> I agree
> 
> dbmopen() already loads AnyDBM_File to do the real work without the
> user (or script) knowing, so this idea could be extended.

What an excellent idea. 

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