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Re (tilly) 3: New Problem?by tilly (Archbishop) |
on Oct 17, 2001 at 18:50 UTC ( [id://119417]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
This is rather frustrating. I put a lot of energy into
becoming a competent Perl programmer, I tell you a lot of
valuable information point blank, and you just ignore it
all? Sure, you have lots of croak calls. But if your code is like any half-way sane person's, none of them are expected to be called in regular use. Now based on what happened when you did call it, I am willing to bet that your installation is messed up. I am telling you that based on quite a bit of experience. Please do not disregard that statement. If it is true, then all of your error handling is going to be giving you back useless error messages. If you are a good programmer, that statement should bother you. A lot. Furthermore compare the error with what your code tries to put out. Your error reporting doesn't actually give the error it is supposed to. That is worrisome. However even if your code worked as you expect, the error message that you would have gotten would be wrong and misleading. That underscores my point that I made before about error handling, which you seem to be ignoring. But a good programmer wouldn't ignore that. A good programmer should be bothered if error handling gives you messages that send you down a blind alley. A good programmer doesn't want to make debugging harder. So I am telling you the following.
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