Em Seg, 2009-02-02 às 13:51 +0100, Leon Timmermans escreveu: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM, <pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl> wrote: > > -the latter case C<$!> is set). > > +the latter case C<$!> is set). The C<:async> flag lets the call > > +return an undefined value if no character is immediately available. > IMHO it would be better to call that non-blocking IO instead of > asynchronous IO, but I'm POSIX-biased.
Agreed, it would be async if that was a request for a character that would be replied using some other call, in that case it is non-blocking read. But I should argue that it should be a property of the IO object, not of every individual method call.. daniel
