[ILUG] moan about perl & php

[John P . Looney]

 I've been using them both a good bit lately. First time ever using them,
really, for a proper project.

 And their syntax error reporting leaves a lot to be desired. PHP's the
worst. Leave out a semi colon, and that whole block of PHP doesn't output
anything. Leave out a $ before a variable (which, when programming in TCL,
PHP, Javascript, Bash, SQL, HTML and C in the same day happens a lot), and
the same thing can happen. Do both, and Gaia help you. If it doesn't
printout *anything* it should at least tell me why. And line numbers rock.

 I spent *ages* tracking down this little beauty in Perl:

  &do_action($action[$cntr]), " - To hdr matches $tmp"; 

 For some reason, some print outs were blank. Took me ages to notice that
it should be:

  &do_action($action[$cntr], " - To hdr matches $tmp"); 

 No syntax error, nothing. Ah!

Kate

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