Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[nick]

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 ;-)

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Nick Ing-Simmons