Re: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl?

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Re^2: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by CountZero (Bishop) on Jan 20, 2012 at 21:56 UTC
And if your coding style is less than perfectly standard, PerlTidy is your friend! CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]
Re^2: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by educated_foo (Vicar) on Jan 20, 2012 at 22:55 UTC
This should work. But think hard about keeping comments and POD in the right place, e.g. either at the top of the file or before the sub to be commented. You might start with a 4-state state machine: `start-of-file -> ??? -> sub-header sub-header -> /^sub / -> in-sub in-sub -> /^}$/ -> sub-header sub-header -> eof() \|\| /^__(END\|DATA)__$/ -> end-of-file` [download] And remember to save that last non-empty "sub-header" when you reach EOF.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14 UTC
In my world, there's only place for POD to go: at the end of the file. Comments are easy. If there are comments related to a sub, but outside of the sub, they'll precede the sub and have their comment marker in the left column. But luckily, I never have felt the urge to sort my subs in alphabetical order; to me that makes as much sense as sorting my bookshelves on colour. I group related subs together.	[reply]
Re^4: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by educated_foo (Vicar) on Jan 21, 2012 at 05:21 UTC
In my world, there's only place for POD to go: at the end of the file. After getting used to Emacs's docstrings, I find that style annoying. The docstring is actually within the function, explains its usage, and gets extracted when you compile documentation. If you put all your POD at the end, you either lose the ability to put usage next to the function, or have to duplicate your POD in a comment.	[reply]
Re^5: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 23, 2012 at 16:17 UTC
Re^6: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by educated_foo (Vicar) on Jan 23, 2012 at 16:46 UTC
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Re^5: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by LanX (Saint) on Jan 24, 2012 at 17:11 UTC
Re^4: Meta-perl - sorting my perl subs with perl? by Syndaryl (Initiate) on Jan 23, 2012 at 14:56 UTC
As I mentioned upstream, it's difficult to subgroup this... morass more. I've already pulled out the content that's going to be on every document into another module from the stuff that's optional and might show up "anywhere" into another module. The naming scheme on the subs is already going to group subs sorted alphabetically about as well as I can get them further grouped. It's either that or I'll have three to five modules with two to four subs in them (for the few tables that have a few variations), and a gigantic "misc" lump. Which is barely helpful. But thank you, /^sub/ is a facepalmingly simple solution. Of course I don't need to balance braces. Jeeze. All this text is rotting my brain.	[reply]


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