On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Eli Billauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
>> The question if *you* have encountered a crash and if *you* have
>> reported it to the perl5porters or to the perl 5 bug tracking system?
>>
> I can't see why this is relevant, but the answer is no.
It is relevant as now you turn this argument into some urban legend.
Almost every time I hear someone complain about perl crashing it turns out
to be either a C-based module crashing or the environment not compiled
or configured correctly. It is almost never the fault of the perl interpreter.
Yet you also add to this without having encountered any such issues
yourself.
> And my main
> concern wasn't crashes anyhow, but Perl scripts becoming harder to read
> as the language is extended with features one could live without.
We can argue till the end of times what feature each one of us could
live without.
For example we lived quite well without the Internet or mobile phones. Remember?
Specifically to the example you gave earlier.
If you get an error
Unimplemented at script.pl line 713.
Would you really first grep for the word "Unimplemented" or would you
open script.pl
at line 713 and check what is there?
If you find there the following code:
{ ... }
would you run away screaming or try to learn what '...'
means e.g. by asking on this list?
Gabor
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