On 23/10/2007, via RT James Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by James Keenan > # Please include the string: [perl #46727] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46727 > > > > auto::ctags was prepared by ptc and we committed it to trunk over the > weekend. For the sake of completeness, I'm opening an RT to track > unit tests for it as I did in June for the other configuration step > classes. > > And speaking of which: > > I just posted this question with respect to config/auto/ > attributes.pm, upon which auto/ctags.pm was modelled (I think).
Actually I modelled auto/ctags.pm on auto/m4.pm... > Why > are we using $/ where a newline would suffice: > > [parrot] 507 $ grep -n '$/' config/auto/ctags.pm > 43: print $/ if $verbose; ... but grabbed some elements from auto/attributes.pm. If this is wrong/bad style let me know why (I like to understand stuff) and fix the code as appropriate. Thanks for orgranising the tests on this! Paul