Perl amok

The ‘camel’ book has become a little too thick, given what I just saw on my console.

I:\Tags_Project>perl tags_test002.prl
Creating pipe “PipeInTags”.
Can’t locate auto/Win32/Pipe/connect.al in @INC (@INC contains: [...]

What this means of course is that I have a typo.
I have typed

$PipeInTags->console()

where I should have typed

$PipeInTags->Console()

Perl cannot report that a string of text has a possible match in a PM in the same string with a leading Cap. Perl.

Perhaps a unix utility run amok. If Ruby is Smalltalk-as-perl where Objective-C is Smalltalk-as-Next-C then perhaps Ruby is the answer. But not for this task. Because Tclx remains buggy, I am left with Perl.

Many implementations of Smalltalk do not do much better with typos, which doubtless is why Unit testing started as SUnit (Dolphin 6 does quite well.)

MTF.

More to follow on Perl and the IDE.

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