Re: [MacPerl-Porters] perlport kind of question

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 6:46 PM -0600 1/18/00, Matthew Langford wrote:
>Okay, another q.  HTML::Parser makes the assumption in one of its test
>files that /^error message/ will be valid, whereas MacPerl prepends a "#
>" to the error msg.  This probably isn't unusual.
>
>Is this going away in MacPerl 5.6?  Seems like there was some talk about
>making std Perl error msgs the default, and MPW errors an option.  Is that
>so?
>
>Is there a std portability patch for this sort of thing, or do I just
>swallow and accept it?  Is it supposed to be okay to check errors this
>way, or is this deprecated behavior?
>
>
>Thanks to all for putting up with my ignorance and naivete.

Known problem, and it's been discussed on perl5-porters.  I believe 
Chris has a perlport change for just this.  IIRC the plan is exactly 
to lose the "# " in the next MacPerl, so as to make the error strings 
the same as anywhere else, but have a way to turn the "# " back on 
for the convenience of MPW users.

But Gisle Aas is aware of this particular problem, and if you supply 
a patch to remove the anchor, I'm sure he'd accept it.

>
>
>--
>MattLangford

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Paul Schinder
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