On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:50:35AM -0800, Austin Schutz wrote: > I don't know, but I do know that having the interpreter crap out > is not helpful to most of us simpletons who find phrases like "core dumped" > not especially user friendly.
If you haven't loaded some external module written in C then you should never see "core dumped" coming from Perl. If you do, it's a bug and you should report it. I think most people (simpletons or not) should be able to understand "Illegal division by zero at..." which is what Perl gives me when I divide by zero. If on the other hand this happens to you in C, you're simply experiencing the downside of putting performance before error checking. Nothing is free, F
