Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl warn and die format

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 21:32 -0500 1/15/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>> Of course, Matthias is the final word, but I don't think the current
>>> behavior is proper.  It breaks things.
>>
>>Well, the fact that I went out of my way to *change* the format away from the
>>default might provide a slight hint that I disagree on that point.
>>
>>This debate is certainly legitimate, however, and also timely, since I'll
>>probably review all Mac specific patches again in the next release of MacPerl
>>and this particular patch is rather large.
>
> This discussion seems to have died.  Did we come to a resolution?  Will we
> keep it the same, and I'll add a note to perlport?

I concluded near the point at which the debate died that it's 
probably more important to conform to the Perl form (so that code 
which makes the unwarranted assumption about error formats never 
changing will run) than to the MPW form of error messages.  As one 
who started out strongly in the MPW-format camp, I thought I should 
mention my change.

(My personal preference would still be the MPW way, but the arguments 
in favor of conforming to the Perl community seem persuasive.)

   --John
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