[Catalyst] TT2 + CP::Authentication + DBIC gotcha

Perrin Harkins perrin at elem.com
Fri Jul 13 20:13:54 GMT 2007


On 7/13/07, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
> As anecdotal evidence to its insidious behavior, I've personally been
> involved in a 5 man debugging effort that took 13 days (not full days,
> but probably an average of 3-4 hours a day * 5 people * 13 days) to
> finally find the bug.  Which was simply "my $foo = $bar if $baz;"
>
> The reason why it was so hard to track down was because ot he
> wonderful undefined behavior.

I had a similar experience, which is why I always mention when I see
it in other people's code now.  It's a real problem and very hard to
track down if you haven't heard of it before.

- Perrin



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