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Postings from November 2002
On Thu 28 Nov 2002 17:33, Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > > Yves Orton wrote: > > > > A while back Salvador Fandino posted a patch/feature idea for providing > > proper assertions with debugger support. Personally I thought the idea was > > brilliant but refrained from commenting as I know little of the code > > involved and figured all and sundry would address it better than I ever > > could. However it seemed that almost nobody commented on the patch. > > Neither to say "what a great idea, but unfortunately ..." nor to say "what a > > great idea, after you make some changes to X, Y and Z we'll probably apply > > the patch", or for that matter anything else (well, there was one comment > > but that was it). > > > I receive a few mails with comments, but nobody wrote me telling that > he had actually tried the patch or looked at the implementation. I think > that it is a pity that the idea ends in nowhere, because for large > projects, assertions are a very helpful tool to find bugs and improve > the quality of the software. And then there is the interaction with the > debugger that is really cool. > > Well, I just would like to ask you again to take a look at the patch and > send back your comments. I guess we are all waiting for the Pumpking. Rafael wrote in his highly values summaries: On Tue 19 Nov 2002 10:07, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> wrote: > Assertions in Perl > Salvador Fandino send an impressive patch to add assertion support to > Perl. Briefly, a new sub attribute "assertion" is used to mark subs as > assertions, and those assertions are enabled via a new command-line > switch, "-A". Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes found that it's a great idea. The > pumpking hasn't commented on this yet. > > http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg88948.html -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11. Smoking perl CORE: smokers@perl.org http://archives.develooper.com/daily-build@perl.org/ perl-qa@perl.org send smoke reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, QA: http://qa.perl.orgThread Previous