On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Tom Christiansen <tchr...@perl.com> wrote: > It is neither necessary nor sufficient to check the return value > from print to detect an error in print.
I agree it's not sufficient, but I don't agree it's not necessary. Just imagine a program waiting for a reply to a question that never reached the other side of a pipe. IMO not checking print's return value can cause worse bugs than not checking close because it's much more likely to affect the flow of the program. > Certainly it can!! Enlighten me :-) Leon
