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Keep the faith, Brother!
Having been a Smalltalk user for at least 5 years now, one thing that helps in typical Smalltalk environments is their checking of method names when you define new methods. Every time you edit a method, it's recompiled; the compiler does a simple check to see if any of the method names you're using haven't been defined yet. If so, you get a warning. This has helped me detect a lot of typos in my code. I'm thinking that a similar strategy could be used with Perl, by scanning programs like this:
This is a simple strategy, and it should be easy to implement. Tell me if it works! I still prefer full testing, though. Have you read anything about Extreme Programming techniques? One of the XP tenets is to write tests FIRST. In reply to Re: Re: Re: Forcing Compile Time Checking That Subs Exist
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