Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] FAQ updates

[Sam S. <S...@mS...>]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:57:05AM +0100, Sam Smith wrote:
> > Comments on the rest of it also requested :-)
>
> > +Please don't mail developer's individually, because not only may they
>
> Grammar nit - should be "developers".
> (You probably knew that, and although I know it, it doesn't stop me finding
> myself doing it by accident occasionally)

Doesn't mean I spotted it :-)


> > +are commonly caused by typos during editing. These typos result
> > +in the program not being valid Perl.
> > +
> > +You should check every line you edited, to ensure that you have not
> > +left a set of quotes or brackets (of any variety) open. Having an
> > +opening ' with a corresponding " is a very common problem, and not
> > +easy to spot (especially when you have one of each and don't notice
> > +they are different).
>
> Do we want to make any suggestion about running the program with perl -c
> locally? (better still run it on a web server locally)

That question is getting huge. I'm starting to think it's worth
pulling it out of the FAQ, and into its own page where we can go in to
more detail. Thoughts?




Sam

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