Re^3: Campaign to clean up CPAN modules' POD?

I just hate walking in on someone's code where they've pretty much copied the example verbatim and not thought about tidying it up.

If they haven't thought there, they didn't think elsewhere either. Verbatim copies of pod examples are a easy to find red flag. You wouldn't improve their overall code quality had you examples for every one of their needs in any pod ...

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Re^4: Campaign to clean up CPAN modules' POD? by cLive ;-) (Prior) on May 22, 2007 at 18:33 UTC
Totally, but if they are running under strict and warnings with lexically scoped variables, I actually have a snowball in hell's chance of understanding the structure of the code and refactoring as needed. I don't need to know whether they understand all the benefits - it's just that they will have already done the basic work of catching that variable typo etc before I hit it :) That's a lot easier than trying to add "use strict" to a few thousand lines of code that have never run under strict before!	[reply]

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Re^4: Campaign to clean up CPAN modules' POD?
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on May 22, 2007 at 18:33 UTC

Totally, but if they are running under strict and warnings with lexically scoped variables, I actually have a snowball in hell's chance of understanding the structure of the code and refactoring as needed. I don't need to know whether they understand all the benefits - it's just that they will have already done the basic work of catching that variable typo etc before I hit it :)

That's a lot easier than trying to add "use strict" to a few thousand lines of code that have never run under strict before!

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