On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 18:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question is why it didn't fail on all the animals with
> similar
> Perl vintage. My guess about that is that there's some configuration
> difference causing the Perl script to take slightly different code
> paths, but it's just a guess.
Sounds plausible.
>
> Yeah. I was dismayed to find that there's no perlcritic check for
> this, because it sure seems like the kind of thing you don't want
> to invoke by accident.
Additionally, the delimiters can many characters, which makes simple
grepping harder.
I found a few cases -- attached a patch. Something is better than
nothing. I'm not sure that I got the /.*/ cases right, but they don't
seem to be expecting any output, so /.*/ seemed like the right pattern.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
