Hi Ken,

> like 'perl -c ...', that will just check the syntax without executing any part of the code?

the problem is that imported functions can change the syntax.

Just think of something like sub foo (&) {} , which will only compile if it finds foo {...} later. That's the main reason why Perl is so hard to parse statically.

> The use statements will be my biggest problem; although, others may crop up here and there.

> "Can't locate SomeMod.pm in @INC ..."

OK let's suppose the exported functions don't change the syntax.

What you could do is pretending that "SomeMod.pm" was already loaded, by setting %INC in a BEGIN block.* No need to find a module which was already "loaded".

But these are kind of hairy workarounds, do you really think it's worth going down that road?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

*) I seem to remember that perlrun allows you to inject a BEGIN without changing the actual code, just the way you start it.

In reply to Re: Perl syntax checking without `perl -c` by LanX
in thread Perl syntax checking without `perl -c` by kcott

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