Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 20.39 -0500 12.30.1998, Vicki Brown wrote:
>At 11:39 -0800 12/30/98, John W Baxter wrote:
>> I can't imagine running a development tool under MPW without that
>> behavior...it's what every compiler, etc, has done under MPW since
>> 1986.  Since MPW installs itself as a "foreign file system" <it was
>
>MPW tool output does tend toward this standard and that's what the Mac is
>all about: standards.
>
>So maybe the behaviour could be "standard Perlish" for the standalone
>MacPerl and use the
>
>    # Warning: something's wrong, <> chunk 1.
>    File ':test.pl'; Line 1
>
>    # Died.
>    File ':test.pl'; Line 1
>
>format under MPW?

Then the perl tool breaks Exporter and who knows how many other modules and
programs, and the app does not.  That's a scary road.  I think it is
clearly unacceptable.  It's bad enough if MacPerl acts differently than
standard perl, but when MacPerl acts differently than MacPerl, we're in
trouble.  :)

Waiting for Matthias to weigh in,

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