Fellow Monks:

I am seeking a way to parse modules in an effort to drive away the demons of runtime errors.

In the OOP method, one may end up with many packages, some of which get used in certain programs, while others are not needed. A single change in an object's method API will require many changes in other packages.

Currently, this can only be remedied by grep'ing the code to seek out and exorcise the offending ancient code. I seek a way to "compile" a given piece of code such that any discrepencies between a module's API and the code that is calling that module will be revealed at compile time. I call this compiling only because it should be smart enough to understand the perl language and match up a call to a perl module with the correct method. Of course we cannot expect to validate that the function is passing the correct order/number of parameters... however the ability to flag instances where the code will break if run is sufficient.

Perhaps someone has an even better way? Perhaps a module on CPAN has this capability already? I seek your advice.

Thank you
-pos

In reply to Parse/Validate Code by pos

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.