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[perl #117507] perltrap.pod needs updating

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
June 4, 2013 20:09
Subject:
[perl #117507] perltrap.pod needs updating
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-2552-1370376530-970.117507-15-0@perl.org
On Tue Jun 04 09:47:59 2013, jkeenan wrote:
> On Sat Apr 06 17:07:36 2013, Hugmeir wrote:
> > This is a bug report for perl from fraserb@gmail.com,
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.16.2.
> > 
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > [Please describe your issue here]
> > 
> > perltrap.pod is supposed to be a list of traps for both perl
> >    programmers
> > and programmers coming to perl from other languages. However, it
> >    hasn't
> > really been updated in the last decade, and is in dire need of an
> >    overhaul.
> > Currently it only lists a handful of traps for C, awk, bash, sed, and
> >    Perl
> > itself. All of these could be cleaned up and expanded, and also
> >    sections
> > for $LANGUAGE_OF_CHOICE could be added.
> > 
> 
> hugmeir,
> 
> I really appreciate the sentiment behind this ticket.  However, it's
> formulated without specific criteria for closing the ticket.  In other
> words, how will we know when we have sufficiently improved
> pod/perltrap.pod such that this ticket could be closed.
> 
> Would it be better if we created separate RT tickets for each language
> that needed some cleanup, with pointers to specific things that need
> cleaning up?

Since the Camel has these, we probably ought to include Java, Python and
Ruby.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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