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in reply to Re: RFC: A Primer on Writing Portable Perl Programs
in thread RFC: A Primer on Writing Portable Perl Programs

To extend that, you could always set up a collection of dispatch tables in your own code, and simply select the appropriate mapping using $^O. Then you code using your SKU mapped functions. It might not be the best, but you could always make it a module, and use it where needed.

Just a thought,
-v.

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