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Postings from January 2022
PART 1:
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> perl -e'print "\x{100}"'
Wide character in print at -e line 1.
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^^ Would it benefit if that warning instead were something like:
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Wide character in print (you forgot to encode) at -e line 1.
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The status quo merely describes the problem; I’d like to add a bit that points to the fix.
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PART 2:
While I’m raising the issue, what would it take for Perl-issued warnings (and exceptions?) writ-large to include some sort of searchable, indexed lookup code, something like:
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W.18: Wide character in print (you forgot to encode) at -e line 1.
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Then users could search on that code in Perl’s documentation, maybe like:
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perldoc W.18
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Thoughts?
-FG
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