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NAME

diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics
 

SYNOPSIS

    use diagnostics;
    use diagnostics -verbose;

    enable  diagnostics;
    disable diagnostics;

Using the "splain" standalone filter program:

    perl program 2>diag.out
    splain [-v] [-p] diag.out

Using diagnostics to get stack traces from a misbehaving script:

    perl -Mdiagnostics=-traceonly my_script.pl

DESCRIPTION

The diagnostics Pragma

To use in your program as a pragma, merely invoke

    use diagnostics;

at the start (or near the start) of your program. (Note that this does enable perl's -w flag.) Your whole compilation will then be subject(ed :-) to the enhanced diagnostics. These still go out STDERR.

Due to the interaction between runtime and compiletime issues, and because it's probably not a very good idea anyway, you may not use "no diagnostics" to turn them off at compiletime. However, you may control their behaviour at runtime using the disable() and enable() methods to turn them off and on respectively.

The -verbose flag first prints out the perldiag introduction before any other diagnostics. The $diagnostics::PRETTY variable can generate nicer escape sequences for pagers.

Warnings dispatched from perl itself (or more accurately, those that match descriptions found in perldiag) are only displayed once (no duplicate descriptions). User code generated warnings a la warn() are unaffected, allowing duplicate user messages to be displayed.

This module also adds a stack trace to the error message when perl dies. This is useful for pinpointing what caused the death. The -traceonly (or just -t) flag turns off the explanations of warning messages leaving just the stack traces. So if your script is dieing, run it again with

  perl -Mdiagnostics=-traceonly my_bad_script

to see the call stack at the time of death. By supplying the -warntrace (or just -w) flag, any warnings emitted will also come with a stack trace.  

The splain Program

Output from splain is directed to STDOUT, unlike the pragma.  

EXAMPLES

    use diagnostics;
    print NOWHERE "nothing\n";
    print STDERR "\n\tThis message should be unadorned.\n";
    warn "\tThis is a user warning";
    print "\nDIAGNOSTIC TESTER: Please enter a <CR> here: ";
    my $a, $b = scalar <STDIN>;
    print "\n";
    print $x/$y;

If you prefer to run your program first and look at its problem afterwards, do this:

    perl -w test.pl 2>test.out
    ./splain < test.out

Note that this is not in general possible in shells of more dubious heritage, as the theoretical

    (perl -w test.pl >/dev/tty) >& test.out
    ./splain < test.out

Because you just moved the existing stdout to somewhere else.

If you don't want to modify your source code, but still have on-the-fly warnings, do this:

    exec 3>&1; perl -w test.pl 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- | splain 1>&2 3>&-

Nifty, eh?

If you want to control warnings on the fly, do something like this. Make sure you do the "use" first, or you won't be able to get at the enable() or disable() methods.

    use diagnostics; # checks entire compilation phase 
        print "\ntime for 1st bogus diags: SQUAWKINGS\n";
        print BOGUS1 'nada';
        print "done with 1st bogus\n";

    disable diagnostics; # only turns off runtime warnings
        print "\ntime for 2nd bogus: (squelched)\n";
        print BOGUS2 'nada';
        print "done with 2nd bogus\n";

    enable diagnostics; # turns back on runtime warnings
        print "\ntime for 3rd bogus: SQUAWKINGS\n";
        print BOGUS3 'nada';
        print "done with 3rd bogus\n";

    disable diagnostics;
        print "\ntime for 4th bogus: (squelched)\n";
        print BOGUS4 'nada';
        print "done with 4th bogus\n";

INTERNALS

If an extant $SIG{__WARN__} handler is discovered, it will continue to be honored, but only after the diagnostics::splainthis() function (the module's $SIG{__WARN__} interceptor) has had its way with your warnings.

There is a $diagnostics::DEBUG variable you may set if you're desperately curious what sorts of things are being intercepted.

    BEGIN { $diagnostics::DEBUG = 1 }

BUGS

The "-pretty" directive is called too late to affect matters. You have to do this instead, and before you load the module.

    BEGIN { $diagnostics::PRETTY = 1 }

I could start up faster by delaying compilation until it should be needed, but this gets a ``panic: top_level'' when using the pragma form in Perl 5.001e.

While it's true that this documentation is somewhat subserious, if you use a program named splain, you should expect a bit of whimsy.  

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The diagnostics Pragma

The splain Program

EXAMPLES

INTERNALS

BUGS

AUTHOR

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