Re: how exactly is INCLUDERC handled?
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At 10:06 2011-01-14, Bart Schaefer wrote: >The point, however, is that unlike (say) perl, the entire file is not >compiled before interpretation begins. Another way of putting this for the non-programmer types is that you can have a glaring syntax failure somewhere in your procmailrc, but so long as the execution never reaches that point, you'll never be made aware of it. In a compiled environment, the program isn't executed until the language syntax validates (you can still have buffer overruns, etc, but those are runtime failures, not language syntax). The parse-as-you-go nature of procmail is in many ways a stumbling block, but at the same time, it also allows people to create includerc's on the fly. --- Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html> Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.