Thanks for the 'use warnings;' suggestion. Keep in mind the subject here is maintainence - where small changes with minimal impact to production is the rule and the work is often done by programmers with incomplete…
Thanks - I'll try to remember that if I ever have to touch perl again.
Those languages are far more maintainable and their communities have far more respect for practices which prevent programming errors. I don't particularly care how many forms of equality or comparison a language has as…
There are neat things on your roadmap but I'm actually more curious about the stuff you aren't interested in doing with this. Can you say more about the anti-feature set?
I was recently asked to add some trivial code to the end of an existing unmaintained Perl script written long ago. Something along the lines of $x = `cat FOO 2>/dev/null`; if ($x == "foo") { system("BAR"); } When I…
Thanks for the 'use warnings;' suggestion. Keep in mind the subject here is maintainence - where small changes with minimal impact to production is the rule and the work is often done by programmers with incomplete…
Thanks - I'll try to remember that if I ever have to touch perl again.
Those languages are far more maintainable and their communities have far more respect for practices which prevent programming errors. I don't particularly care how many forms of equality or comparison a language has as…
There are neat things on your roadmap but I'm actually more curious about the stuff you aren't interested in doing with this. Can you say more about the anti-feature set?
I was recently asked to add some trivial code to the end of an existing unmaintained Perl script written long ago. Something along the lines of $x = `cat FOO 2>/dev/null`; if ($x == "foo") { system("BAR"); } When I…