Nobumi, I think these are very interesting ideas, I've had them too, but haven't really gone as far as implementing anything... If anyone attemps to build either of these, I'd certainly give them a try... It would be nice to see MacPerl have the advantages of some 'other' environments... Pete >We could stored them perhaps in lib:user, in different files according to >the category of "verbs", like >string: > addCommas (number) > countFields (string, delimiter) > dateString () > delete (string, index, count) > .... >[snip] > >By the way, this idea may bring up another idea: that of building a kind of >file based "Object Database" that can be used from MacPerl. We could use >some special folder in the MacPerl folder, and store in it files containing >data or some global values, and use them from MacPerl... ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch