[MacPerl] Re: Introduction to MacPerl article

[PVHP@LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU]

Charles Cave writes recently:

>I'm writing an article on MacPerl for the magazine of Sydney's
>Macintosh User group called "Club Mac". Their magazine is called
>Macinations and has a circulation of around 1500 copies.

[rather long & nice article mostly deleted here]

>Commentary on the code:
>
>1. The &MacPerl'Choose function will prompt the user for the
>choice of input file using the standard Macintosh dialogue box.
>The variable $infile will be set to the full pathname of the chosen
>file.

Perhaps you could convince your readers to start using the perl 5 form, namely 
&MacPerl::Choose ?

On a related note: has anyone run into trouble with the use of the double colon 
on the Mac? I still see a lot of MacPerl code with the single forward tick 
being written.

Peter Prymmer
pvhp@forte.com