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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
August 31, 1999 17:22
Subject:
Re: perldiag.pod omissions
Message ID:
199909010021.SAA06484@jhereg.perl.com
>Tom> MISSING:
>Tom>     op.c:  Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Version number must be constant number"); 
>Tom> Really?  Even if I override or replace UNIVERSAL::VERSION()?

>What would that have to do with it?  ;-}  The op-tree is wrong if
>you get that message (it's a (P), in other words).  The lexer
>only recognizes a number in that position, and generates an
>OP_CONST for it.  Thus, you'd bloody well better have an OP_CONST
>when you get to Perl_utilize().

Everytime the lexer only recognizes certain thing in certain
positions, it bothers me. :-(

    print $fh{$name} "data\n";  # nope

--tom

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