More insane Interchange nonsense:
> Where can I find documentation for this ?
Doesn't exist. The beauty of Perl is, it's always self-documenting.
So the thing about Perl (for non-perlers) is that it can look really
noisy. Even when you write something very straight-forward it has all
of these $, @, and % hanging around. It's not pleasant. Because
it's really easy to write something completely unintelligible once
you've figured out regular expressions (20 points to the person who can
tell me what this does: $a ~= /((a*b{33})+c?)?/) and the rest of
perl's $a->{'foo'}[0]->{@gargargar} the Perl folks created a nice
format called plain old documentation (or pod) that you can use as
comments in your code and get a nicely formatted html or pdf document
out of it. And if you do it even half-assedly there is at least
something to go on.
Well the Interchange folks are so full of themselves that they don't need coherent documentation. They'll just use the code! And if using one hard to parse language wasn't enough they decided to invent their own horrid macro language that is also undocumented.
And so I'm spinning my wheels reading their undocumented system and trying to debug why their new version is not giving me the right answer when it does do the right thing on this other machine running the old version. This is even more difficult since the program gives unusable diagnostics, and requires a human blood sacrifice every tenth transaction.
I just want to get this done and paid.
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