Platform information is often useful up front because Perl is cross-platform and people who only use a single platform are often unaware that a problem may be isolated to their context. At the very least others can then report reproducing the problem (or not) and possibly start narrow the scope of the problem.

Many things are not platform sensitive. However GUI and file system related things very often are. A brief heads up in those cases saves time for the OP and for whomever may be replying.

Version information is always useful up front where buggy behaviour is being reported.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^2: Very strange Scrollbar behavior in Win32 Perl/Tk version 804.027 by GrandFather
in thread Very strange Scrollbar behavior in Win32 Perl/Tk version 804.027 by liverpole

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