On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 05:17:17PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: > > What do we gain by letting people write string code that will work > on some machines but not on others? I don't know. What do we gain by preventing people to write code just because it may not work on some other architecture? It shouldn't be Perls call - it's up to the user whether or not he writes code that may not work elsewhere. Only the user knows whether the code he writes needs to run on different architetures. Abigail