Justin Allegakoen wrote: > > I was feeling kind of adverse to modifying zilore's code since he had > mentioned your name without the $ in a previous post. > > Then it turned into he's obviously doing something useful and > struggling with it so here's my 5 minutes worth. > > TIMTOWDI check. preference check. worse check. Feeling sorry check.
There was basically only one thing wrong with the latest script I saw and that was that the dir was missing on the rename or unlink or whatever it was - a common mistake when you're sitting above the dir you're dealing with. And possibly, I would have used a filter on the filenames to make sure we only got msg files (I believe it was msgYYYMMDD or some such). There's nothing wrong in showing alternatives, but unless there's a rational reason for switching, they should only be classified as that - possible alternatives. IOW, I would always try to fix things the way the person is trying to do it and offer the alternatives as a sidebar. The ultimate goal/purpose is (I think) to fix the mistakes in/debug the person's code. And don't worry about that last check. :) _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
