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Re: Autom4te::General


From: Russ Allbery
Subject: Re: Autom4te::General
Date: 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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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