Chas. Owens wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:41, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <shawnhco...@magma.ca> wrote:
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open my $fh, '<', $file or die "cannot open $file: $!\n";
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Completely off topic, but I dislike the error messages that say
"cannot". "Cannot" implies that the problem exists currently and can
cause confusion when someone goes to check the error condition (which
sometimes no longer exists). I prefer "Could not" which implies the
problem existed at the time the program ran, but might not exist now.
Or maybe I have worked with too many English majors.
You are talking about a microsecond (nanosecond?) interval between the
error being detected and the message being displayed, of course the
error condition no longer exists, the program just died! Try working
with us English corporals, those officers are too condescending. :-)
John
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