Re: suggested warning about perl nested named subroutines - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From David Fetter
Subject Re: suggested warning about perl nested named subroutines
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Msg-id 20051012021820.GB12454@fetter.org
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In response to Re: suggested warning about perl nested named subroutines  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:01:02PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:58:22PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 2005-11-10 at 18:36 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> >>
> >>>Examples of each and how they'd break would be good.
> >>>
> >>Is that needed? Seems like overkill to me.
> >
> >IMHO, yes, and no, respectively.  If there's an example, there's
> >fewer frustrated people pestering lists about it.
>
> If this were a Postgres problem I'd agree with you. But it isn't,
> really - it's a Perl problem, which is properly documented in the
> Perl docs, to which this note refers.
>
> I don't think we'll get flooded with problems - Greg is the first
> person who has complained about it in the 9 months or so since
> version 8.0 was released.

Fair enough :)

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D
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