Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] FAQ updates

[Dave C. <da...@da...>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:46:23PM +0100, Sam Smith (S...@mS...) wrote:
> 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?

Or, maybe splitting it out into a number of smaller questions?

Dave...

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