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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

Journal of Ovid (2709)

Tuesday November 15, 2005
06:41 PM

ev[ia]l

[ #27584 ]

You ever have days where where you stare at code that has absolutely nothing wrong with it and you try to figure out why it's not working?

eval { "use $factory_class" };

I blew about five minutes trying to figure that out. What's worse, it was throwing a warning, so I made that go away.

no warnings 'void';
eval { "use $factory_class" };

Yeah, real impressive coding there. Were it not for my test suite, that would have passed silently into production.


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  • I stared at this for a while yesterday, wondering why I wasn't getting any output.
    %hash = ...;
    Dumper( \%hash );
    I actually make this mistake about once a week. For all the complaining I do about functions doing I/O on their own, I wish this one did.

    • use Data::Dumper::Simple autowarn => 1;

      my %hash = (
          foo => 1,
          bar => 'baz',
      );
      Dumper(%hash);
      __END__
      %hash = (
        'bar' => 'baz',
        'foo' => 1
      );

      Of course, that just led me to a bug in the docs which incorrectly identifies the attribute as autodump. I need to go fix that.

      Or, if you're like me and you set up editor bindings to spit out boilerplate quickly, then you won't mind this interface:

      use Data::Dumper::Simple
          as     

  • I just wasted days on one where MySQL told me I had a syntax error in my query, which I clearly didn’t. The problem was in $sth->execute( map $cgi->param( $_ ), @paramname ); – can you spot it?

    • Erm, not quite sure. Could it be a list context issue where you have list elements dropping out or extra elements getting inserted?

      • Exactly. I had to bung an extra scalar in there, à la

        $sth->execute( map scalar $cgi->param( $_ ), @paramname );

        I failed to see the problem for days even though I had done this correctly in every other instance of this snippet.

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