Explaining source code

[szabgab]

I am not sure how close this is to what I wanted, but I'd like to a feature to Padre so when and expression is selected in a Perl document the user can bring up a pop-up explaining what that expression means.

I am mostly aiming at beginners or people with little experience who need to maintain funky code.

So if you plans have some overlap it would be great to see this added to Padre.

[submersible_toaster]

Possibly, if the idioms you're looking to explain can be expressed by pulling apart sequences of PPI tokens, the scope would be just as broad.The Schwartzian Transform for example could be matched. Do you have some examples for be me think about?

I keep meaning to take a deeper look at Padre, which appears to be moving a at great pace. Were Padre to have a POD panel alongside editor,fs tree, etc - macropod could be used there as already described

[szabgab]

for a starter I'd like to be able to recognize and explain thing such as $_, $_[0], $a, but of course expanding bigger expressions would be also cool.

What is $x ||= 42; ?

Think about beginners, or people with little experience who are thrown in to maintain a nasty code base.

Think about people for whom Perl is only a 3rd or 4th level tool that they hardly know, hardly use but want to fix some code.

I am sure we'll work out the details on the Padre mailing list or IRC channel.

[submersible_toaster]

Without meaning to be rude , what are the chances a perl beginner ever escapes from their editor of choice? I had a bash w/ Padre on ubuntu 8.04 this weekend and stopped at the instruction to 'remove all Wx 2.6 from your system' - Not likely!