Perl Software Pet Peeve: not using warn and strict
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I just started a job recently where the previous developer of software that I'm modifying did NOT use warn or strict!!! How the hell do people justify that? I just don't get it... Not only do these tools speed debugging, they make your programs less succeptible to bugs.
If anyone reading this does NOT use warn (invoked by putting a '-w' after your perl interpreter call, ie: #!/usr/bin/perl -w ), or strict (invoked by putting this after your perl interpreter call or package definition:
use strict;
then please do!
You'll have to make sure your variables are scoped correctly (ie: my $scaler = 'whatever';), which may seem like a bitch but is HELPFUL!
hehe, ok, enough of this. Hope you all are having a fun day.
-japh
p.s. I don't have a tv either, I recommend this if you don't like being brainwashed/desensitized,;-p
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I just started a job recently where the previous developer of software that I'm modifying did NOT use warn or strict!!! How the hell do people justify that? I just don't get it... Not only do these tools speed debugging, they make your programs less succeptible to bugs.
;-p
If anyone reading this does NOT use warn (invoked by putting a '-w' after your perl interpreter call, ie: #!/usr/bin/perl -w ), or strict (invoked by putting this after your perl interpreter call or package definition:
use strict;
then please do!
You'll have to make sure your variables are scoped correctly (ie: my $scaler = 'whatever';), which may seem like a bitch but is HELPFUL!
hehe, ok, enough of this. Hope you all are having a fun day.
-japh
p.s. I don't have a tv either, I recommend this if you don't like being brainwashed/desensitized,