On 08/17/2012 04:30 AM, Paul Tomblin wrote: > If there is one thing that's annoyed me about my whole experience with > RT it's the way errors either get eaten up or mis-reported. I don't > know if that's the fault of Perl, Mason or RT, but I frequently find > myself having to put RT::Logger->debug statements every other line just > so I can figure out where it's silently failing, and then minutely > examining the line to discover that (as happened yesterday) I had an > extra $ in front of a variable name.
Rarely in my experience do things completely silently fail. If you run across such reproducible cases where an error completely disappears, file a bug report. Mason often gets line numbers right, but sometimes doesn't because of the way it's implemented. If you're not in a Mason special block (<%args>, <%flags>), most pure Perl errors (from % lines or <%perl> or <%init>) are fairly explanatory. The special blocks are, well, special and Not Quite Perl.
