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Hi, On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:16:45 -0500 Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > * Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> [2011-11-27T08:49:48] > > OK, people, relax. In the github branch in which I've worked on the patch, I > > did the conversion in several steps by: 1. Adding "use strict;" at the top. 2. > > Getting rid of several of the reported errors. 3. Commenting-out use strict;. > > 4. Making sure the tests still pass. 5. Repeat. > > Thanks, I was never un-relaxed on this point, since you were clear about it > when you provided the patch. OK. > > I think there are a number of places where this stuff could go wrong, and I > think Craig did a nice job pulling out a commit where a bug sneaked through due > to a lack of tests. OK. > > I think your work (Shlomi) is going to be very valuable for future work on the > debugger, but I don't want to apply it just yet. In fact, I think I'd like to > apply it to 5.17.0 or so. What I'd really like to see is a set of tests for > the debugger, which the strictification work can be rebased onto. This will > make the core richer in several ways! > > Do you think this is something you'd be interested in working on, too? > Yes, I would be interested in working on it. More tests are almost always a good idea. I'll see about that. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Chuck Norris is his own boss. If you hire him, he’ll tell your boss what to do. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .Thread Previous | Thread Next