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From:
Sam Tregar
Date:
July 24, 2000 22:54
Subject:
Re: ok, fire away
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.21.0007242246490.4348-100000@airtrout.tregar.com
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, horos wrote:
> Fire away with your complaints && defects with perl5 (large and small).
Perl5's error reporting could be much better. Problems include:
* confusing optimizations with reality. Example: complaining about
problems with the concatentation operator when the user used double
quotes.
* lack of context - Example: when in strict mode Perl can complains that
an undefined value was used, but doesn't say which variable was
undefined.
* horrible tracking of eval - Example: errors inside evals often come with
no indications of where in the eval they occured.
-sam
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