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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Making PERL@41 on a 3b1 -- taint is dead -- and my dbm.
Message-ID: <1990Dec02.195604.2957@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 2 Dec 90 19:56:04 GMT
References: <1263@kosman.UUCP> <973@ecicrl.UUCP>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <973@ecicrl.UUCP> clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>And finally, that 320 clause siwtch statement makes me feel good about
>psroff - I've had one or two complaints that the 256 clauses in a
>switch in psroff is too many ;-)  (it works fine with my 3b1)

Both psroff and perl fail to compile on a 3b2/400 because of the small
switch table in the compiler.  I've been told that a replacement compiler
is available, though. 

>>On the other hand, hasn't this gone on long enough?  Larry??

Yes, especially now that a similar complaint about eval.c was posted
about AUX.  Time to fix it if you want to be able to continue claiming
that perl is more portable than sh.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us


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