# from David Cantrell
# on Wednesday 16 December 2009:

>>Makes me wonder why fatal m/^Unsupported configuration: .*/
>> errors couldn't be made NA.
>
>Mmmm, more special cases.  From a user's (ie, a module author's) point
>of view, isn't it easier to remember "exit(0)" than to remember
> exactly what message to spit out?

Easier to remember, maybe.  But the challenge isn't memory (we usually 
just look things up, right?), it's education.  If you have to educate 
about the unnatural exit(0) *and* that makes the code clunky, it would 
seem like a better idea to educate about something that isn't so 
creaky.

--Eric
-- 
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
-- Charles Darwin
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