On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> Its my maintainence hat on.
>
> Picture some poor shmo, the regular guy is off on his two week vacation,
> in some out the way place without his cell phone. And a production problem,
> or the million dollar client, needs this yesterday.
>
> And he doesn't notice the use printvoidvalues.
>
> So the previous occupant was real careful never to use grep in void context,
> and sprinkled (void) all over the perl code.
>
> But there he will be having strange output show up from nowhere.
>
> Yes, its fixable, yes, he should know what he is doing, yes, its the
> same issue with all pragmas.
>
> But this effect bothers me.
>
> I'll slink off now.
>
> <chaim>
And that two-week vacation will be muuuuuuuch longer, I bet.
I don't think even I'd be crazy enough to ab^H^Huse this in production
code, but I guess anything and everything can be dangerous.
(Hence the warning on the Pop-Tart sleeves that tell you to remove the
wrapper before putting them in the toaster.)
--
Bryan C. Warnock
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