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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:49:15PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm issuing this "request-for-comments" to see if anyone can see a good reason > why I (or someone else who volunteers to do that) should not convert > "lib/perl5db.pl" (which implements "perl -d") to "use strict;" > and "use warnings;"? If everyone is OK with that, then I'd like to try doing > exactly that. I'd love to see it happen. I'd encourage you to do it as a series of small commits rather than a larger change. The last time I looked at doing so, I got scared off due to the lack of decent test coverage. It's very easy to break that code without realizng you've done so. At some point, I dared Leon Brocard to improve that code. (I bribed him with beer.) By the time we found a comment along the lines of "# this increments i"[1], he'd decided it was going to be less work to write Devel::ebug. Best, Jesse [1] The comment turned out to be incorrectThread Previous | Thread Next