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Re^4: Hacking Debugger bugs connected to $^Dby LanX (Saint) |
on Apr 24, 2013 at 21:59 UTC ( [id://1030545]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
> it is just awful and way above and beyond my level of comprehension. Yeah it takes time! I admit that I was very frustrated at the beginning. This code seems to have grown out of a Perl4 predecessor, the basic structure must have been designed 15-20 years ago. It depends on some obscure perlguts. Mostly package vars, very long routines, nested flows, many AND-for-IF constructs, a bag of completely unknown features, wild package structures ( dumpValue lives in main!!! WTF ?) At least someone took the effort to re-document it with nested PODs (which OTOH doesn't facilitate refactoring at all) But mastering it gives a very powerful tool. And it's a key tool, we need to keep it running.
Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)
UPDATEstill talking about v1.30, haven't looked in the newest on yet.
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