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Hi Jesse,
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:22:53 -0500
Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:
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>
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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.
Well, what I usually do with such code, is add "use strict;", get rid of all
the errors, and then commit. How can I effectively split it across several
smaller commits?
> 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.
>
I see.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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