John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Too bad I can not just change the default to be the POSIX_EXIT behavior,
> as that is not 100% compatible with past Perl behavior on VMS, but gives
> the results that I think that most programmers (with out previous Perl
> on VMS experience) would expect, and allows removing a lot of VMS
> specific code in the test scripts. But the test scripts still have to
> work with older perls.
As I hinted before, I'm not convinced we can't change that in a new
major release (if the payoff is sufficiently high, and if this doesn't
raise too many new problems). I'd just like to know what the VMS users
are thinking about this...
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