Re: [MacPerl] BBEdit & MacPerl

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

I wrote:

> Actually, I would say this is not reasonable ...

Then Chris wrote:

> I think it is not unreasonable...

We never agree...
If written correctly, two applications should be able to
write non simultaneously to the same file with predictable
results. That's not an opinion - that is a demonstrable
fact and I've done it myself on several operating systems
and several programming environs.


> But it is not even BBEdit that is doing the saving. Really.
> It is MacPerl.

OK, I see your point. This seems like a flaw in the handshake
between MacPerl and BBEdit. Alpha does not behave that way,
but of course, I get lame invisible files and still get
unpredictable behavior...

> open the same file for writing in two places, get unexpected
> results.  Just "don't do that."

GOOD ADVICE!
So we **DO** agree sometimes.

jay

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