From: ts Date: 2001-03-28T17:27:54+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:13261] Re: Randal in Ruby-land? (was: email address regexp) >>>>> "M" == Mathieu Bouchard writes: M> Perl's "tie" is by all standards a hack. However, from a user's point of M> view, it _works_, and as an idea it _works too_. What do you call _works_ ? Just look at "Tying FileHandles". It's always easy to implement something which work partially and try to hide the problems (do you remember "my" ?) Guy Decoux