Re: [FWP] Is this fun? What's going on?

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Jones <bill@fccj.org> writes:

Bill> open IRECORD, "<Smry_TEST.html" or die "Ouch!  Stop $! $?";
Bill> open ORECORD, ">Smry_DONE.html" or die "Yowie, stop $! $?";

Using $? when you haven't had a recent child exit of your awareness
is likely to give you confusing die messages.  Not a good practice.

Neither is using $! when you haven't really had a system-call related
failure (although that doesn't apply here, since you did).

Don't add too much to your error messages.  The virtue of Laziness
does not apply to thinking about what's in the message.

Just another Perl Style Moment, :)

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