Re: Keyword list sanity check

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:33:28AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> I wrote a little perl script to perform a basic sanity check to
> keywords in gram.y and kwlist.h. It checks that all lists are in
> alphabetical order, all keywords present in gram.y are listed in
> kwlist.h in the right category, and conversely that all keywords
> listed in kwlist.h are listed in gram.y.
>
> It found one minor issue already:
>
> $ perl src/tools/check_keywords.pl 'SCHEMA' after 'SERVER' in
> unreserved_keyword list is misplaced
>
> SERVER is not in the right place in gram.y, it should go between
> SERIALIZABLE and SERVER. I'll fix that.
>
> I'll put this into src/tools. It's heavily dependent on the format
> of the lists in gram.y and kwlist.h but if it bitrots due to
> changes in those files, we can either fix it or just remove it if
> it's not deemed useful anymore.

Please clean up this code at least to the point where it's
strict-clean, which means putting "use strict;" right after the
shebang line and not checking it in until it runs that way.

I tried, but couldn't make heads or tails of the thing, given all the
unused- and similarly-named variables, failure to indent, etc. I
don't know how to put this gently, but if you checked in C code with
quality like this, you'd have it bounced with derision.

I'd also like to propose that "strict clean" be a minimum code quality
metric for any Perl code in our code base. A lot of what's in there
is just about impossible to maintain.

Cheers,
David.
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