Re^3: File lock demo

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This reminds me of a long battle I had with The Damian, where he finally acknowledged he made a boo boo in Perl Best Practices, due to his lack of knowledge of differences in behaviour of Perl's unlink function between Unix and Windows:

Perl Best Practices book: is this one a best practice or a dodgy practice?
Re-runnably editing a file in place (see also this related atomic rename node)

I'm pretty sure that's the only argument I ever won against him. :)

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Re^4: File lock demo by LanX (Saint) on Apr 24, 2021 at 23:45 UTC
> This reminds me of a long battle I had with The Damian, For the records, no battle here. Davido only mentioned this after being asked, that was not part of any slides. :) > he made a boo boo FWIW I always thought that documentation should have a test suite too. At least the perldocs. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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