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Re[2]: Problems reporting perl bugs
From:
jpeacock
Date:
March 31, 2000 13:17
Subject:
Re[2]: Problems reporting perl bugs
Message ID:
0003319545.AA954537868@univpress.com
Actually the ISBN dashes are significant, see the Business::ISBN module:
0-13-219908-4
Country Code - Publisher Code - Book Number - Check Sum
If you have a list of current defined publisher and country codes, you can
derive the location of the dashes, but the correct notation should include them.
John Peacock
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Subject: Re: Problems reporting perl bugs
Author: "Kurt D. Starsinic" <kstar@chapin.edu>
Date: 3/31/00 3:44 PM
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:00:26AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>
> > --- perlthrtut.pod.bak Sun Mar 19 02:37:24 2000
> > +++ perlthrtut.pod Tue Mar 28 11:58:49 2000
> > @@ -720,3 +720,3 @@
> > find it easier to serialize calls to a particular subroutine than to
> > -have a set of locks and sempahores.
> > +have a set of locks and semaphores.
> >
> > @@ -1030,3 +1030,3 @@
> >
> > -Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
> > +Tannenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
> > 1995, ISBN 0-13-143934-0 (great textbook).
>
> His name appears to be spelled Tanenbaum, with one 'N', so the original is
> fine. However, a search on the book appears to show that the ISBN is
> 0132199084 (pub. date 23-Aug-1994 or September 1994, depending on the
> source). Ah, a search at Prentice-Hall says that its ISBN is 0-13-219908-4
> and that it has a publication date of August 1994 but a copyright date of
> 1995. So you don't need to correct the spelling of the author's name, but
> you should update the ISBN.
The ISBN hasn't changed. The dashes are not significant; they are
supposed to make the number more human-readable. Don't they do a good
job?
Peace,
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