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Is it working?

Well, it is in production. :) I have been tasked with fixing a number of reported bugs. It qualifies as legacy code in that:

It does not use strict or warnings.
No unit tests.
Hard to test in isolation. Not designed with testability in mind.
No documentation.
No coherent error handling policy.
Lots of code duplication.
Big-arse functions.
Functions that are not cohesive (similar to a sin_and_tan() function).
Inconsistent naming. Poorly chosen names.
Lots of unnecessary cleverness.
Code that does not match the comments.
Pointless code (e.g. checks if running on Unix at runtime yet contains "use Win32::..." and so won't even compile on Unix).
Constructor does not check validity of arguments.
Module does not contain a version.
Oh, and perl critic found a number of flaws such as: i) open calls not being checked; ii) $_ being modified in map and grep blocks; iii) capture variables being used without checking if regex succeeded.

In reply to Re^2: How to deal with old OO code that mixes instance methods with class methods by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread How to deal with old OO code that mixes instance methods with class methods by eyepopslikeamosquito

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