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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: newsclip vs. latest version
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.183620.29340@netlabs.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:36:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.233119.21823@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> mwm@fernwood.mpk.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
- : I'm having trouble convincing newsclip to run. It is calling scanner
- : as articles come in, but appears never to leave them. I suspect the
- : problem may be that this perl is 4.0.1.4, at patch level 10.
- :
- : Could someone confirm that newsclip requires features/bug fixes that
- : aren't in that patch level?
-
- Yes, it uses eval {}, which is more recent than 4.010. It could be
- replaced with an eval '', but it wouldn't run as fast. The eval can
- be taken out entirely because it's there to catch the
-
- die "You should never see this\n";
-
- which is just a short circuit and can be deleted, again at the expense
- of some overhead.
-
- By the way, "newsclip" is a program of Brad Templeton's. I did a
- s/newsclip/clip/g to mine and sent it out again--you probably only
- saw the first copy.
-
- Larry
-