On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:40 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On May 21, Arran4 said:
>
>> so i could do?:
>>
>> if (-e "c:\config.sys") {
>
> Why don't you test it yourself, instead of asking us for permission? You
> can learn a lot about Perl by trying things yourself.
I'd like to underscore this part....
as I would rant to the QA team,
"If it ain't smoking, you ain't testing hard enough...."
half of the fun of perl is that - well, it really is mostly
high enough up the 'ISO seven layer cake' that you will not likely
FRAG your machine by trying things. ESPECIALLY if you
a) use strict;
b) use warnings; # or the -w flag
since this will most of the time guard you against the
rudimentary sillies that we all make when we start out in
a new language.... { or type badly, or have brain fade... }
It will also help you get on a first name basis with the
perl compiler - and what it can and can not tell you about
where it thinks the problem is.
the one we all hate is some unclosed block, that just
gobbles up the world and the perl compiler has to say
basically
got to the end of file and didn't find closure,
I plan to pout until you find the problem.
At which point you will also want to get on a first
name basis with your friend the perl debugger - and get
a feel for what it can and can not do - especially when
you are four layers deep into someone else's import section
of their perl module.... since some times that is the
simplest way to see where You Zigged, when you Really
Wanted to Zag....
Granted, once you start figuring out how to do things with
'syscall()' - then you are clearly ON YOUR OWN. When you
decide that you know what a vnode structure is, and which
of the kernel calls you need to request it to update the
atime and ctime in the inode of a symbolic link..... Then
you can get close to having to figure out how to use fsdb
to rebuild your file system by hand because you missed
by just a bit.... but if you are doing those sorts of tricks
why are you reading the beginner's mailing list??? More
importantly why aren't you in Therapy?
ciao
drieux
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