Re: APIs that don't have good error-reporting mechanisms

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From: Robert G. Werner
Subject: Re: APIs that don't have good error-reporting mechanisms
Date: 06:41 on 27 Jan 2005
Peter da Silva wrote:
> Ah yes. My favorite symptom:
> 
>     The operation failed because: the operation completed successfully.
> 
> 
I like how File::NCopy will succeed and then fail to report that it
succeded on the version of perl I'm using with a Web Host but works
fine on my machine.

I haven't dug deep enough to figure out what is going on but I have a
hunch it's due to the version of perl.

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