IMHO... it would be preferable to at least mention the symbolic name of the constant, FIONBIO in this case, in preference to just giving the value as 0x8004667e. Otherwise, we risk giving even more Perl newbies the idea that it's cool to write code with mysterious, arbitrary large hex constants in it.

Perl code is scary* enough to users, even without making it look like we are trying to sneak a concealed Dark Ritual Invocation of the Name of the Beast into our code.

* Alas, "scary" is exact word my boss used yesterday when he looked at a one-liner I dashed off for him. That's bad, very bad....

In reply to Re^2: Timeout Socket recv on UDP... on windows by quester
in thread Timeout Socket recv on UDP... on windows by shunyun

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