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What tools are pros using to fix or avoid basic syntax errors? If I code for a couple of hours and then run the code, I regularly find a dozen or so basic errors like missing semicolons, misspelled variables, unmatched brackets, etc. I'm using syntax highlighting in vim which helps to a degree but misses some really obvious stuff.

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Re^2: When does programming become automatic (if ever)?
by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 14, 2016 at 19:09 UTC
    I write the code in a way to be able to run it more often. In fact, I usually make it (or better, its test suite) run automatically every time I save any of the files. So, I'm fixing the errors as I progress.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^2: When does programming become automatic (if ever)?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Apr 14, 2016 at 20:45 UTC
    I'm using syntax highlighting in vim

    Excellent. That means you can also leverage the perlsupport plugin so you can compile from within vim. Compile early, compile often.

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      Holy crap, this plugin looks awesome. Thanks!

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