PERL Miscellaneous - Re: finding invalid method names

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Re: finding invalid method names

Michael Carman

2007-04-27, 10:01 pm

On 4/27/2007 5:41 PM, ivan@0x4849.net wrote:
>
> 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.

Method dispatch happens at runtime. There's really no way for a static analysis
tool to determine whether or not a given method call is valid.

> 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.

Umm, as Tad said, there are no method calls in that code. Did you want to ask
about detecting undefined *subroutines*?

-mjc

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