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-Perltidy open BUGS and LIMITATIONS
- You can help perltidy evolve into a better program. If you think you
- have hit a bug or weird behavior, or have a suggested improvement,
- please send a note to perltidy at users.sourceforge.net.
-
- This file only lists open bugs. For bugs which have been fixed, see the
- ChangeLog.
-
- The --extrude and --mangle options can produce code with syntax errors
- The --extrude tries to put as many newlines in the formatted code as
- possible. The --mangle tries to remove as many newlines as possible.
- These options are very useful for stress testing perltidy (and Perl) but
- not so much for normal formatting. Occasionally they will produce code
- which Perl considers to have a syntax error. These problems often
- involve code where Perl is having to guess the tokenization based on
- whitespace. The given/when and switch/case statements are also
- particularly vulnerable to unusual line breaks and whitespace. This type
- of error should not normally occur in practice, but if it does it should
- be easy to fix the problem by rerunning perltidy with more normal
- parameters or by manually changing whitespace or newlines.
-
- The Pod:Html module has some bugs
- For the most part Pod::Html works very well and is very convenient
- because it part of the standard Perl distribution. But for example the
- following line
-
- =item B<< <Deck> = Session->new_cflt_deck; >>
-
- which uses double brackets to contain single brackets does not render
- correctly.
-
- Two iterations are sometimes needed
- Usually the code produced by perltidy on the first pass does not change
- if it is run again, but sometimes a second pass will produce some small
- additional change. This mainly happens if a major style change is made,
- particularly when perltidy is untangling complex ternary statements. Use
- the iteration parameter -it=2 if it is important that the results be
- unchanged on subsequent passes, but note that this doubles the run time.
-
- Latest Bug and Wishlist at CPAN:
- For the latest list of bugs and feature requests at CPAN see:
-
- https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-Tidy
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