Re: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Vicki Brown writes:
|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?

It could, but it would break some code. Consider:

my ($size, $age) = (-s $file, -M _);

and moving a script that uses the two value -s to Unix could produce quiet
bugs:

my ($dsize, $rsize, $age) = (-s $file, -M _);

Brian

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