>
>WHY????
Impatient. :)
Because stepping through tedious numbers of questions about the return
value of a function call was no fun. I was looking up each one in the
header files to make sure that the type of variable returned was indeed
what was expected by the PERL distribution.
Another example is asking me whether the machine I'm running has 4-byte
ints, etc. I don't know without looking it up.
>
>perl's Configure -d is remarkably similar.
I was afraid to use that because some questions were related to paths and
library sets which I felt needed non-default answers. I suppose that I
could have used the -d switch then gone back through the enormous list of
uncommented variables and try to figure out which variables have to do with
the parameters I want to insure. The fact that that configuration variable
file has no comments makes it difficult to determine what variable means
what. In fact, some of them are remarkable similar in appearance. I imagine
some of them are not even used.
If I think of more ambiguities I'll let you know; unless you've heard enough.
Thx,
dk
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dks@spies.com | Performance is life, entertainment is death.
>WHY????
Impatient. :)
Because stepping through tedious numbers of questions about the return
value of a function call was no fun. I was looking up each one in the
header files to make sure that the type of variable returned was indeed
what was expected by the PERL distribution.
Another example is asking me whether the machine I'm running has 4-byte
ints, etc. I don't know without looking it up.
>
>perl's Configure -d is remarkably similar.
I was afraid to use that because some questions were related to paths and
library sets which I felt needed non-default answers. I suppose that I
could have used the -d switch then gone back through the enormous list of
uncommented variables and try to figure out which variables have to do with
the parameters I want to insure. The fact that that configuration variable
file has no comments makes it difficult to determine what variable means
what. In fact, some of them are remarkable similar in appearance. I imagine
some of them are not even used.
If I think of more ambiguities I'll let you know; unless you've heard enough.
Thx,
dk
--
dks@spies.com | Performance is life, entertainment is death.