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Postings from August 2003
Fergal Daly wrote: > > Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo > (W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable > names. If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then > just mention it again somehow to suppress the message. The "our" > declaration is provided for this purpose. + NOTE: $c and @c are the same variable name for this purpose; if + two or more variables with the same name and different prefixes + are used only once, it will not trigger this warning. > > speaks about variable names rather than variables but I wonder how many people > get that the subtle distinction without finding out the hard way, How about something like that? I suppose we could also suggest taking a look at an entry describing globs (but that seems like too detailed for a warning). Personally, I don't think the likelyhood of someone getting bit by this particular "thinko" warrants confusing the docs. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747