Gabor Szabo wrote:
I don't understand. Is this FUD or do you have real examples?
Google "Perl crash". Plenty of them. Which is a natural consequence of
making changes in the code. We seem to agree on that:
Sure any piece of code can - including the perl interpreter - will have bugs
and new bugs might be introduced and it is always annoying to find that out
but if the code is not touched then it won't make any progress either.
As for the new fantastic feature,
if ($condition) { ... }
being equal to
if ($condition) { die "not yet implemented" }
Did that addition break your code?
I didn't say it did. What I did say was that every programmer now has to
know about this, or otherwise he or she will run someone else's script
or module, get the "not yet implemented" message, and have no idea where
it came from. I mean, the first thing I would do is to search the code
for that string, and not find it. And then the modules. And submodules.
And there's always the slim chance that this change happened to be the
one causing a crash. Like any change. If this is what you call progress
justifying playing with the code, we seem to differ.
Eli
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