Just to stir the pot a bit, everyone knows about the tendency of the Perl
debugger to occasionally give incorrect line numbering.
Two questions:
How long would that bug be allowed to last in a similar product from one of
the evil empire companies?
How would our criticism of that bug in that product differ from the casual
way it's treated in Perl?
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Well, technically it isn't a bug, but an unclear implementation. You can
get around it -- that's why it probably hasn't been fixed, because it's not
really "broken". You have to take into account that re-tooling little
things like this contributes to the size of the core. Perl is so great for
speed, improving over tcl and python, even java in some cases. Many of us
who maintain large enterprise software products in perl are more concerned
with these issues than an error which is reported 5 lines from its apparent
origin. We just educate ourselves about the issue and learn to understand
what the compiler is telling us.
Perhaps this reply isn't offered in the spirit of the question, but I
thought I'd point that out.
- Tommy Butler
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