SPUG: Slice of an arrary within a hash?
Stuart Poulin
stuart_poulin at yahoo.com
Fri May 5 20:29:49 CDT 2000
Scripts that worked fine in 5.005_3 work fine in 5.6 but now toss warnings.
Solution - turn of -w.
use strict, yes always.
--- Christopher Maujean <ChrisM at courtlink.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, I always use
> -w
> and
> use strict;
>
> I code to fit them both and have far fewer problems
> than I used to. There are (very very) few and far
> between cases where I explicitly need to turn off
> strict ref's or subs, etc for a small block of code,
> but I make sure I have a very good reason, I heavily
> document that reason in the code and turn full strict
> back on immediatly after that block.
>
> If a module can't pass strict and -w I won't be using it
> in production code. I try to write every program as if it were
> to be used by paying customers who will judge me by it.
>
> --Christopher Maujean
> ***NOT representing Courtlink or Data West Corporation in any way shape or
> form.***
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel [mailto:largest at largest.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 4:56 PM
> To: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Slice of an arrary within a hash?
>
>
> > ced at carios2.ca.boeing.com wrote
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > ^^^^^^
> > ^^^^^^
> > # enable warnings above. See -w
> > # in action below:
>
>
> <$0.02>
>
> -w is a great tool, but I don't put it in the shebang line of my perl
> scripts. This is because it turns on warnings for *all* Perl involved in
> the script, which includes all use'd modules and all modules the use'd
> modules use, and so on. Also, it will sometimes warn me about things that
> I know are okay.
>
> You can turn off the warnings temporarily by local'izing the $^W variable
> around code you know might generate a warning. But at work there are some
> older modules that are crufty and generate lots of (allowable) warnings.
> So I get tired of reading a page of warnings I already know about every
> time I run the script. (yes I realize someone should go fix the old
> modules :-)
>
> My solution? When I'm stumped on a debug or want to verify my code before
> checking into production, I run
>
> perl -cw myscript
>
> which shows me the warnings.
>
> </$0.02>
>
> Joel
>
>
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