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in thread Debugger actions: On which lines?

Not too worried about "users," just power users and hackers who might see a .exe or something and want to peek. That style of comment is not best practice for Perl (use Pod) and useless for anyone who isn't a hacker or least knows how use the "cmd line." For portability I meant between platforms and the "proper" idiom for the script is #!/usr/bin/env perl so there are perhaps fewer places on *nix :P

Anyone can of course do what she thinks best or easiest. It doesn't cost anything to have a shebang though and it could potentially save someone else some trouble. I am not pushing for the style but I would do it (if I were developing on Win these days but I haven't needed to for years).

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Re^11: Debugger actions: On which lines?
by worik (Sexton) on Aug 19, 2015 at 04:28 UTC

    How interesting this has been.

    I do #!/usr/bin/perl -w by reflex. I have been criticised because it turns on warnings globally - but I could never see why I would not want that! This is a reason not to use "-w", but it is a bug not a feature.

    Thans every body, this has been fun!

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Re^11: Debugger actions: On which lines?
by worik (Sexton) on Aug 19, 2015 at 04:54 UTC

    Arghhhh! I just spent 20 minutes of my life preparing a bug report using "perlbug". After crafting a splendid report (truly splendid) I was prompted to send it, I did and the stupid programme tried to send the report by port 25 which failed (I send mail in other ways) and after it failed as far as I can tell my bug report (did I say it was truly splendid?) has been lost for ever!!! Perhaps I should learn python\t\t\n\t!

    A very grumpy Worik

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      My copy of perlbug contains: 

              paraprint <<EOF;
$0 has detected an error while trying to send your message: $error.

Your message may not have been sent. You will now have a chance to sav
+e a copy to disk.
EOF
        SaveMessage();

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      and 

      sub SaveMessage {
    my $file_save = $outfile || "$progname.rep";
    my $file = _prompt( '', "Name of file to save message in", $file_s
+ave );

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      So that is what is supposed to happen if there is a problem with sending the e-mail. I can certainly understand being very frustrated when that didn't happen.

      Note also that you can use "perlbug -F mybug.txt" if you want to use perlbug w/o it trying to send the e-mail for you.

      - tye        

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