Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.09 -0500 12.30.1998, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
>Actually, I can imagine lots of Mac-bigots being less than thrilled to
>special case Mac-mangled die messages.

Not just Mac bigots.  Just the fact that is a "special case" is annoying to
many people.  Basically, it boils down to the fact that people like me and
Paul spend a lot of time and effort convincing people to work with
reasonable special cases, ones that are mandatory because of the platform
specifics.  Like no forking, no flocking, different newlines and paths,
etc.  It is too much to ask them, IMO, to do additional work because of
something that is not really necessary because of the platform, like this.

However, if it is decided that this should not change in MacPerl, then we
need to add it to perlport and we need to notify people who check these
values what they need to check against instead of what they currently check
against.

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