On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

> Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For this case, I don't know if it matters much -- I don't know if there
> > are other platforms that don't define those macros -- but the general
> > principle of testing for features, not for platforms, is a good one and I
> > like to jump up on my soapbox and ramble on about it at every
> > opportunity :-).
>
> I'd say, if we find more platforms that need it, we move it into
> generic.

Given that we already know this is going to be an issue (since perl 5's
already hit it) it seems a bit counterproductive to put this off until
later. We know later's going to come, so we might as well get it out of
the way now.

                                        Dan

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