use Perl

• that'll break case-insensitive filesystems! (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  You can't have both File::Stat and File::stat. Ugh.

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  • Re:that'll break case-insensitive filesystems! (Score:2)

    by djberg96 (2603)

    Good point. This sort of thing could really mess up MS Windows users if left unchecked over time (and make a mockery of namespaces and name selection in general), assuming continual abuse.

    Time for the CPAN cops to step in I think. You don't wanna mess with the CPAN cops - they play hardball.
  • Re:that'll break case-insensitive filesystems! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rafael (2125)

    You can have File::Stat and File::stat, installed in different locations, on a case-insensitive filesystem. However you can write use File::stat; and have File::Stat loaded.

    At some point during the 5.7 development phase, a warning was added to detect that kind of things, but it was then proven unpractical. The curious minds can check the explanatory comment about this now-vanished warning in op.c (function Perl_utilize) in the perl 5.8.0 sources.
• Ha ha (Score:2)

  by belg4mit (967)

  This bugged me to. Another instance where it
  would have been nice to moderate ;-) Worse,
  the author is actually aware of the existence
  of File::stat. The dox also didn't seem to
  indicate that the module was different in
  any significant way either.

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  Were that I say, pancakes?