in reply to Re^11: Multi-threads newbie questions
in thread Multi-threads newbie questions

Just a lot of extra code and dependency for little or no gain. But, others will disagree with that assessment.

Better error messages are definitely worth it :)

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Re^13: Multi-threads newbie questions
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 20, 2010 at 20:02 UTC

    Are they better?

    C:\test>perl -MIPC::System::Simple=capture -E"say capture( 'perl', '-q +' )" Unrecognized switch: -q (-h will show valid options). "perl" unexpectedly returned exit value 9 at -e line 1 C:\test>perl -MIPC::System::Simple=capture -E"say capture( 'prel', '-q +' )" "prel" failed to start: "The system cannot find the path specified" at + -e line 1 C:\test>perl -E"say qx[prel -q 2>&1]" 'prel' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\test>perl -E"say qx[perl -q 2>&1]" Unrecognized switch: -q (-h will show valid options).

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