Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from January 2012
On 30 January 2012 14:33, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> wrote:
> On 30 January 2012 14:22, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> IMO, depraction warnings belong in linters. "use warnings" isn't a linter.
>>> I think that, for those that have warnings enabled, the emitting of warnings
>>> on each and every run of the program will be considered as bad as a breakage.
>>
>> I just hope that people agree that it warning once per line using a
>> deprecated feature, and not once per invocation of that feature is the
>> lessor of two evils.
>
> I think most deprecation warnings are compile-time, so they'll warn
> once already.
Ah, so making ALL of them like that would not be a big change! And
would make their behavior consistent! So there really isn't much
ground to object to it. :-)
> This is not the case for at least :
> - "goto" to jump into a construct (runtime warning)
> - Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated (runtime warning)
> - chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() (runtime warning, should be
> easy enough to move into a ck function)
> - Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s::%s() is deprecated
> (runtime warning)
Well the one I specifically had in mind was the regex one for
unescaped curly-braces. Afaiui those would warn every time too.
And I bet people would appreciate if those warning stopped happening
so much. :-)
cheers,
Yves
--
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next