Re: problams with IO::Socket::INET

Tom Christiansen (tchrist@jhereg.perl.com)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 22:25:21 -0700


>Implementation and interface should not be confuzed. There should be no
>"special cases".

That's a meritorious goal.  But it's not reality.
Look at keyword() in toke.c, and notice the difference
between a positive and negative return value.  Consider

    return KEY_print;

which is not overridable, and 

    return -KEY_chdir;

which is.

Oh, and please prototype a user-overridden split(). :-)

--tom