Re^4: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion

[erroneousBollock]

Open up the source of SOAP::Transport::HTTP... does it look OK to you? (Scroll through the whole file)

Seems really screwed here.

YMMV.

-David

[grep]

I assume you didn't expect me to actually look... but I did.

I used SOAP version 0.28, emacs 21.4.1 with it's current version of cperl-mode.
I looked at

• SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Apache
• SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
• SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client
• SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Server
I saw no mistakes in syntax highlighting. So unless you have a specific complaint, I would suggest checking out your assertion before you post. I'll be quite happy to post screen shots if needed.

[erroneousBollock]

I just scrolled through the whole file.
I have almost the same versions.
I see breakage that seems to be caused by mis-parses of string termination... not vim-bad... but still broken ;)
Could you post that screenshot somewhere so that I may compare it?

Update: Is it possible that I've mis-configured something and it's falling back to perl-mode ?

I'll be the first to admit I'm not an emacs expert. Only really been using it for 3 months (to play with lisp and slime).

I'm much more comfortable in vim (even with its really weak syntax-highlighting). I've been using it for 10+ years so it's just what I'm used to i guess. My fingers are still not used to hitting the control/alt-keys so much.

Update 2:
Nevermind. It seems my lisp skills are quite sub-par :(

Latest ntemacs and latest cperl-mode (+ actually following instructions) seems quite fine.

Thanks grep, for making me check my facts!

-David.