On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 05:11:09PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:

> Acme::Whatif ...

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?

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.

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