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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
November 8, 2000 11:08
Subject:
Re: die'ing honorably
Message ID:
20001108130401.A12988@chaos.wustl.edu
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:53:55AM -0800, Jeff Okamoto wrote:
> Jarkko wrote:
>
> > > open my $fh, "< :shift-jis JapaneseTextFile" or die $!;
> >
> > open my $fh, "< :shift-jis JapaneseTextFile" or seppuku $!;
>
> Only if it's an honorable error. It was considered an honor to be allowed
> to commit seppuku. If you were not to be given this honor, you were either
Hey, we are Perl programmers, we do only honorable errors.
It's the programmers of other languages who get crucified :-)
> beheaded or (later) crucified.
>
> Jeff
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