[Melbourne-pm] Module::Signatures and typos in packages

[Toby Corkindale]

Thanks for working on that.

The version from github as of today (5d976a98224) now gives me a useful 
PPI error, when the stable version of MS was just giving me the 
first_token error.

I note that this dev version fails one of the unit tests 
(t/error_interruption.t) on my system.

Looking forward to the next stable release!
Cheers,
Toby

On 19/08/11 13:33, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On 2011.8.11 2:06 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> Jacinta mentioned Method::Signatures a little last night in her presentation.
>>
>> I hit an interesting problem with the module today.
>>
>> If your file has some errors in it, then instead of getting an error like
>> "Global symbol "$args" requires explicit package name at [..]", you get an
>> error like this:
>> Can't call method "first_token" on an undefined value at
>> [..]/Method/Signatures/Parser.pm line 17.
>>
>> I was using a script and package that boiled down to the following..
>> However now I can't replicate the problem in the cut-down example :/
>
> That problem has been encountered before and somewhat addressed.
> https://github.com/schwern/method-signatures/commit/35501f64f630ac5b8d407adcbaf3258e7fad7419
>
> It's touchy, and depends on the version of PPI.  I believe the root problem is
> that PPI can blow over $@.  See
> https://github.com/schwern/method-signatures/issues/28
>
> Anyhow, work was done on the way exceptions are propagated and $@ is now
> protected inside Method::Signatures.  There's been a lot of work since the
> last stable release.  Try the latest from the repository to see if it solves
> the problem.  It's going to be released shortly.
>
>


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