[Israel.pm] undefined subroutines not detected at compile time

[Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com]

Hi,

Dynamic - but partly compiled. Why the compiler can not detect simple cases
(not eval/AUTOLOAD etc.)

Yossi



                                                                                                                                    
                      Mikhael Goikhman                                                                                              
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On 15 Mar 2005 15:30:52 +0200, Yossi.Itzkovich at ecitele.com wrote:
>
> When I use both   -w and use strict, I expect Perl to find undefined
> subroutines at compile time (assuming I don't use references to
> subroutines).
> But it doesn't.
>
> It finds it only at run time - like a simple shell script.
>
> Is there to get such checks at compile time ?

Perl is a dynamical language, fortunately or not.

This can't be checked at compile time. Here are 3 examples that
demonstrate why (all are perfectly valid perl idioms that are used
in real life, yet you suggest that they should issue a warning).

% perl -w -Mstrict
eval 'sub undefined_function { print "Hello, World\n"; }';
undefined_function();

% perl -w -Mstrict
sub AUTOLOAD { print "Hello, World\n"; }
undefined_function();

% perl -w -Mstrict
undefined_function() if main->can("undefined_function");

Regards,
Mikhael.

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