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3 Larry Wall Quotes on Error

Larry Wall quotes on error

  1. You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all. :-)

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  2. The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'. :-)

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  3. if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */

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