Re: [MacPerl] Bug report on 5.14b1 (fwd)

[bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Wed, 13 Aug, Chris Nandor wrote:

>However, you could carefully craft a regex to do something similar.
>Possiblities:
>
>/^(?:MacOS|Mac OS)$/
>/^MacOS|Mac OS$/
>/^Mac ?OS$/
>/^Mac( ?OS.*|intosh.*)?$/
>
>Obviously, to best craft the regex, you need to know exactly what the
>possibilities might be.

Let's take this back to the basis. Who decides what $^O returns? Could
this be, for MacPerl, Matthias

In this case, if Matthias decides that the result will always be
"MacOS", the number of possibilities to consider are rather limited. ;-)

	Bart Lateur
	bart.mediamind@tornado.be

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