On 7/15/99 at 3:51 PM, vlb@cfcl.com (Vicki Brown) wrote: > It appears to be a MacPerl/BBEdit interaction glitch. Unix Perl > doesn't change and MacPerl app doesn't either so I've filed a bug > report at BB. By "doesn't change" you mean you see consistent errors with and without the commented line when you run from within macperl's own editing window? I see it change on my machine, exactly as you described. 5.2.0r4 on 8.6. On 7/15/99 at 7:22 PM, schinder@pobox.com (Paul J. Schinder) wrote: > You might be right that it's a BBedit problem, but I thought you said > that the Unix Perl you tried it on was a 5.005_02? Remember that > MacPerl is 5.004. You should probably "man perldelta" on your Unix > box and see if you spot anything that might seem relevant. My staid & cautious ISP is still running 5.004_4 on freebsd. I tried the snippet both with and without the comment line, and got the same error both times -- identical to the longer one vicki posted, as seen with the comment in place under macperl. -nat ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org