Re: The primitiveness of pipe

[hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)]

>>>>> On Thu, 27 May 1993 16:29:48 -0400, Steven M Rezsutek
>>>>> <steve@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov> said:

Steve> Why stop there?  If es had $&socket, I could purge perl from the disk.

Maybe you could, but I could not.  At the very least, we would have to
add regexps (well I already did, to my personal copy of es) and
associative arrays, not to mention formatted output and floating point
arithmetic and all the myriad operations you can do on those sockets,
and...  Talk about bloat.  No, the reason I suggested pipe2 is that
most of the code to do it is already there and it appeared to me that
a small tweak might add a lot of usability.  But then I don't know
enough about the subtleties of wait and the closing of pipes to speak
with any authority on the matter.

- Harald