LPM: perldoc perlerrors

[David Hempy]

At 04:01 PM 8/29/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>How about a compromise? Create something like a header file that defines
>$SYSTEM_CALL_SUCCESS = 0;
>$SYSTEM_CALL_FAILURE = 1;
>for now, and use only the symbolic values in the code. Then change the
>header for Perl 6.


Echh...that would look about as graceful as a DOS batch file!


`foo *.txt`     or die "oops.";

becomes:

unless (`foo *.txt` == $SYSTEM_CALL_SUCCESS) {die "oops."}



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