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Re: [MacPerl] new: Mac::FileSpec::Unixish in CPAN
- To: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
- Subject: Re: [MacPerl] new: Mac::FileSpec::Unixish in CPAN
- From: "Sean M. Burke" <sean@misinc.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:38:41 -0700
- Cc: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
- In-Reply-To: <199811302244.AA26761@world.std.com>
- References: <l03110702b288a077fb6f@[209.30.50.148]> from "Sean M. Burke"at Nov 30, 98 12:28:09 pm
>> I've just sent to CPAN a new module, Mac::FileSpec::Unixish. It
>> should be in <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/>; if
>
>If you are going to create a module that does Unix<->Macintosh
>filesystem mapping, why not override open(), opendir(), etc. to
>translate them transparently?
How would one override the filetest operators (functions?) like -s $foo?
BTW, I've never overridden any core functions, or used overload.pm, but
looking at overload.pm, it doesn't list the filetesters as things you can
overload.
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