On Tuesday 24 June 2008 00:50:27 Paul Fenwick wrote: > > I also hate to get bug reports saying "You should add this line of code > > even if it does nothing useful to all of your modules, because it's not > > there!"
> Unfortunately while the code may do nothing useful to *your* modules per > se, it's extremely useful should any be using your modules in a program > that uses taint mode and wants to be careful about their data. It's rather > awkward that Perl has ended up with the same code that commonly means > "parse this data" to implicitly mean "this data is safe". I find it difficult to believe that you've audited all of my publicly-available code in the past 90 minutes to know exactly how much even uses regular expressions, let alone on data that could possibly come from tainted sources. I believe I write from a position of authority about code where I'm the, well, author. Quality (or even Kwalitee) suggests *removing* dead code, not adding it. -- c
