On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:03:35PM +0100, David Cantrell said:
> I take it that the inability to undo changes to disk files etc means that
> you can't undo changes to data structures tied to those files.  Or is perl
> clever enough to Do The Right Thing in that case?

I doubt it.
 
> Hmmm ... if you've opened a tied dbm O_RDWR, I wonder just how horribly
> fucked up the indexes will become if you die in the whatif block.

Don't do that then.</richardc>

Caveat Programmer, your home is at risk if you do not keep up
repayments, value of previous modules is no guide to value of other
modules.

Simon





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