Perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature

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— Xah Lee xah@xahlee.org wrote:

Just bumped into another irresponsibility in perl.

the crime in question this time is the module File::Basename.

Reproduction:

  1. create a directory containing a file of this name: “cdrom.html”.
  2. “use File::Basename;”, with the line:
    ($name,$path,$suffix) = fileparse($File::Find::name, (‘.html’,
    ‘.m’));
  3. Notice that your cdrom.html will be parsed into “cdr” with suffix
    “om.html”.

Was there really any need for this e-mail…? I couldn’t give a rats
arse as to whether File::Basename under perl works. system(basename foo)
would have done me just fine.

Pointless perl bashing…grrrrr

– Thomas Adam

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The OP was cross-posted to a number of perl-related newsgroups, and also
to comp.lang.ruby for some reason, which is why it ended up in your
mailbox. It’s totally off-topic. Ignore it.

Tim Bates

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote:

Was there really any need for this e-mail…? I couldn’t give a rats
arse as to whether File::Basename under perl works. system(basename foo)
would have done me just fine.

–
tim@bates.id.au

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Tim Bates wrote:

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] Thomas Adam wrote:

Was there really any need for this e-mail…? I couldn’t give a rats
arse as to whether File::Basename under perl works. system(basename foo)
would have done me just fine.

The OP was cross-posted to a number of perl-related newsgroups, and also
to comp.lang.ruby for some reason, which is why it ended up in your
mailbox. It’s totally off-topic. Ignore it.

Not to mention this guy’s reputation for bile and rantings. Best off just to killfile him altogether.