Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 00.13 -0500 12.30.1998, John W Baxter wrote:
>> Would there be any problems in having MacPerl use the same format as the
>> regular distribution?
>
>Yes...MacPerl under MPW would become much less pleasant to use.  At
>most, the change should be an option, or only in the non-MPW-tool
>form, or both.

I disagree.  If this behavior is to be kept, I think it should be limited
to output directed to an MPW window itself, if possible.  There are too
many places in modules and programs, including core modules that come with
Perl, that depend on a certain format.

If you want to take it on yourself to notify every author of every module
on CPAN that checks $SIG{__WARN__}, $SIG{__DIE__}, $@, etc., then I suppose
that would be a reasonable alternative, too.

Of course, Matthias is the final word, but I don't think the current
behavior is proper.  It breaks things.

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