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Re: [RFC] Can we convert lib/perl5db.pl (= the default perldebugger) to strict and warnings?

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
December 12, 2011 08:25
Subject:
Re: [RFC] Can we convert lib/perl5db.pl (= the default perldebugger) to strict and warnings?
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20111212162502.GU23881@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 05:17:53PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> writes:
> 
> > It's these sorts of exceedingly non-obvious gotchas that makes me very
> > wary of messing with the debugger.
> 
> ... or that make it painfully clear that this piece of software requires
> good documentation and/or redesign.

Good documentation alone won't save it. It (also) needs tests, and some idea
of coverage of those tests. I believe that investigating how to do this is
in the list of Google Code In tasks. Hopefully someone will take it up.

But yes, I'm agreeing with "or" (in the inclusive sense).

Nicholas Clark

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