Perltidy open BUGS
- 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.
+ 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.
+ This file only lists open bugs. For bugs which have been fixed, see the
+ ChangeLog.
- A here-doc invoked through an 'e' modifier on a pattern replacement text is not recognized
- For example, the output of perltidy for this script has a syntax error:
-
- my $text="Hello World!\n";
- $text =~ s@Hello@<<'END'@e;
- Goodbye
- Cruel
- END
- print "$text\n";
-
- A workaround is to put the here-doc in a temporary string and then do
- the substitution:
-
- my $text="Hello World!\n";
- my $str=<<'END';
- Goodbye
- Cruel
- END
- $text =~ s@Hello@$str@e;
- print "$text\n";
-
- The --extrude option can occasionally produce code with syntax errors
+ The --extrude option can produce code with syntax errors
The --extrude tries to put as many newlines in the formatted code as
- possible. This option is of limited use for formatting, but it has been
- helpful for debugging purposes. Occasionally it will produce code which
- Perl considers to have a syntax error. These problems usually involve
- code where Perl is having to guess the tokenization. For example,
- --extrude will currently cause a syntax error in the following line:
-
- utime $inc+0 ? ($mtime, $ntime) : ($atime, $atime), $file;
+ possible. This option is very useful for testing perltidy but not for
+ actual formatting. Occasionally it will produce code which Perl
+ considers to have a syntax error. These problems usually involve code
+ where Perl is having to guess the tokenization based on whitespace.
+ Since the --extrude option is typically only used for testing perltidy,
+ this type of error should not normally occur in practice.