Re: Re: When -w and use strict aren't enough...

You can say that it has been the price, but I see a good niche for adding the ability to turn on stronger checking in this area.

Even with subs dynamically generated at runtime or handled via AUTOLOAD, offhand I can think of no case where there couldn't be at least a declaration at hand at compile time. It is Unfortunate that sub declarations aren't common enough in CPAN modules to allow this to be a default check.

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Re^3: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 04, 2003 at 15:26 UTC
Of course it is technically possible to see if an appropriate entry exists in the symbol table at runtime. However, forcing everybody to add declarations for any runtime-generated subroutines strikes me as both un-perlish and extremely unlikely to happen.	[reply]
Re: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 04, 2003 at 18:26 UTC
However, forcing everybody to add declarations for any runtime-generated subroutines strikes me as both un-perlish and extremely unlikely to happen. There's no reason it couldn't be a pragma. Why stop with `use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; use Taint;` when you can add `use predeclaredsubs; use predefinedsubs;` and maybe `no earlyreturns; no typeglobs;` and possibly `use bondage; use discipline; use pain; use Inline::Pascal;` `$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}} split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by adrianh (Chancellor) on Nov 05, 2003 at 11:57 UTC
I'm not saying that it cannot be done, just that it might be of limited utility since it would depend on code being written (or re-written) in a way that support the pragma. The pain of writing code to support the pragma may well be more than the pain saved by the compile time checking.	[reply]
Re: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 05, 2003 at 14:42 UTC
Re^2: When -w and use strict aren't enough... by Asim (Hermit) on Jun 16, 2006 at 13:07 UTC


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