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David Glasser <dglasser@mail.your-site.com> wrote:
> Byron Bummer wrote:
> > Agreed. Every compiler has its quirks. Hell, javac even has a page
> > (part of the FAQ?) that details nearly every error message and what
> > it *really* means. Perhaps perl needs something similar?
>
> You mean like perldiag.pod/use diagnostics?
Not quite what I had in mind. Perldiag is good, but it fails to
properly decode many messages. It describes what the message means,
but not quite as often how you got there, which is context
dependent.
The concatenation message is one such example, but there are many
others. Granted though, most examples I've found are syntax error
messages and not runtime warnings. Still, given the existence of
eval("") these could be the same, for all usefulness.
--
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BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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