Perl

When you find variables which have not been used, you may find yourself asking, “why is this here?” and you may not easily get an answer. Eliminating unused variables can be good for the performance of the code, but also good for everyone else on your team. So, we want to make sure we can remove old bits of unused code and also prevent new cases.

I use ot a lot when it comes to opening files. I wanted to be able to use this tool from inside vim as well. It turns out, the solution is quite simple.

Today an interesting question came up about whether or not Carton uses HTTPS and also which CPAN mirror it downloads from. I wondered if LWP::ConsoleLogger::Everywhere could be helpful.

I was working on some Perl code which included a function whose origin was not obvious. Here’s how I used perlimports to figure it out.