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From:
Sean O'Rourke
Date:
December 27, 2005 11:25
Subject:
[perl #38050] "given" and extra parens
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This is a bug report for perl from nothanks@example.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl 5.9.3.


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According to apocalypse 4, "given" and "when" do not rquire parens
around their arguments.  According to perly.y in blead, however,
they do, e.g. "given ($foo)" works, but "given $foo" does not.

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---
Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.9.3:

Configured by ME at Tue Dec 27 09:48:22 PST 2005.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 9 subversion 3 patch 26503) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=darwin, osvers=8.3.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level
    uname='darwin sean-orourkes-computer.local 8.3.0 darwin kernel version 8.3.0: mon oct 3 20:04:04 pdt 2005; root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2release_ppc power macintosh powerpc '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include',
    optimize='-O3 -g',
    cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/local/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldl -lm -lc
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    DEVEL24148

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@INC for perl 5.9.3:
    /usr/local/blead/lib/perl5/5.9.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /usr/local/blead/lib/perl5/5.9.3
    /usr/local/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level
    /usr/local/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3
    /usr/local/blead/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

---
Environment for perl 5.9.3:
    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    HOME=/Users/ME
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.1/Libraries:/Users/ME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/sw/lib:/opt/local/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/Users/ME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/sw/sbin:/sw/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    PERL_INLINE_JAVA_JNI=1
    SHELL=/bin/zsh


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