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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
February 13, 2011 23:29
Subject:
Re: perldoc improvements for map
Message ID:
20110214072948.GH2084@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> [2011-02-13 17:15]:
> > I'm sorry, but as far as i am concerned portability cannot be
> > overdone. Even the last full release version of
> > ExtUtils::MakeMaker does not work on most Windows platform
> > combinations due to non-portable assumptions, and despite
> > these issues being fixed in the repo there isn't even a dev
> > release of a working version yet.
>
> I would like to see a warning on [a-z] in patterns a heck of
> a lot earlier than I'd care to see a warning on slashes in open
> strings.

False dichotomy? There is no either-or here. Those are separate
problems. They are both worth addressing.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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