use Perl

• diagnostics (Score:1)

  by dagolden (6584)

  I agree. diagnostics [perl.org] and perldiag [perl.org] are both very nice in that way.

  -- dagolden [dagolden.com]
• Perl isn't always perfect (Score:2)

  by Shlomi Fish (918)

  The situation with Perl's warnings and errors is not always so rosey. For example, with this program:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  $name = "Sophie";
  
  print "Hello $name!\n";

  We get:

  Global symbol "$name" requires explicit package name at test.pl line 6.
  Global symbol "$name" requires explicit package name at test.pl line 8.
  Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

  After years of using use strict I got used to the fact that it means that I haven't declared the variable using a "m
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by xsawyerx (8978)

    I disagree, but I'll leave the discussion to some other time.