Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Patches to avoid reporting conversion changes.

From: [email-masked] (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:06:45 -0700

>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> writes:

Jari>     if ( $OS_ERROR ) ...

Right, but without looking, is it $OS_ERROR or $OSERROR?

That's the problem.

You're trading a list of single punctuation characters, pretty
unambiguous, for things that could have been named a dozen different
ways each.

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