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Re: Autom4te::General
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Russ Allbery |
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Re: Autom4te::General |
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Mon, 02 Jun 2003 12:04:04 -0700 |
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
> Since my recent playing with Autoconf's handling of $? and $!, I'm
> convinced that relying on `die' or other `Carp' friend to output
> diagnostics is plain wrong. The only sane way to display an error is
> 'print STDERR' + `exit'. This is what Channels.pm does.
That's also what die does, if the message ends in a newline.
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Re: Autom4te::General, Akim Demaille, 2003/06/02