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Author Re: finding invalid method names
attn.steven.kuo@gmail.com

2007-04-27, 10:01 pm

On Apr 27, 3:41 pm, i...@0x4849.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to run a command on my perl scripts / modules to find out if
> there are any method names that are being called which are not defined.
>
> So for example where I run:
>
> perl -c test.pl
>
> on this script:
> 1 #!/usr/bin/perl
> 2 use strict;
> 3
> 4 blah_blah_foo();
>
> The result is test.pl syntax OK.
>
> Is there any other program i can run to do a static analysis of perl code
> and find these errors?



Function names? I'd use Perl::Critic with
Perl::Critic::StricterSubs. E.g.,

$ perlcritic -theme "strictersubs" demo.pl
Subroutine "blah_blah_foo" is neither declared nor explicitly imported
at line 4, column 1. This might be a major bug. (Severity: 4)

A caveat from the documentation mentions false violations.

In any case, if you use Perl::Critic (static checks) as well as
TAP-based tests (e.g., Devel::Cover, Test::More, Test::Pod::Coverage,
etc.), you (or your boss) should start to feel better about
code quality.

--
Hope this helps,
Steven




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