Brad Hughes:
# Brent Dax wrote:
# [...]
# >
# > +sub buildfile {
# > + my($filename)=shift;
# > +
# > + local $/;
# > + open(IN, "<$filename.in");
#
# According to the coding guidelines PDD (which still doesn't seem
# to have been assigned a PDD number), filenames shouldn't have more
# than one '.' in them. I know this is a common Unixy Configure idiom,
# but it's nonportable, and portability is a goal of the Perl6 configure
# process[1]. May I suggest that after the first '.',
# subsequent '.'s be
# changed to '-'s:
Ask Simon, he's the one who came up with 'config.h.in' in the first
place. BTW, your example isn't portable to DOS--you can't have four
characters in the extension.
--Brent Dax
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They *will* pay for what they've done.
