Re: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator

[kpreid@ibm.net (Kevin Reid)]

> A question.  (Given that everything in Perl is an operator, including the
> "functions", perhaps it's not too strange to consider this operator a
> function?)
> 
> Could -s (under MacPerl) be modified slightly to return the size of the
> data fork (as it currently does) if called in scalar context, and the size
> of both forks if called in list context?
> 
> Is that too off the wall?

That would break lines like this:

print "$file ", -s $file;

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