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[perl #24189] Incorrect comment in perldoc strict
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October 12, 2003 15:19
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[perl #24189] Incorrect comment in perldoc strict
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# New Ticket Created by Iain 'Spoon' Truskett
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This is a bug report for perl from spoon@cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.
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I believe the original wording is wrong. It's talking about the wrong
part of the expression, or is just talking about something that's not
there..
--- lib/strict.pm~ 2003-10-12 18:52:02.000000000 +1000
+++ lib/strict.pm 2003-10-12 18:54:58.000000000 +1000
@@ -108,21 +108,21 @@
=item C<strict subs>
This disables the poetry optimization, generating a compile-time error if
you try to use a bareword identifier that's not a subroutine, unless it
is a simple identifier (no colons) and that it appears in curly braces or
on the left hand side of the C<< => >> symbol.
use strict 'subs';
$SIG{PIPE} = Plumber; # blows up
- $SIG{PIPE} = "Plumber"; # just fine: bareword in curlies always ok
+ $SIG{PIPE} = "Plumber"; # just fine: quoted string is always ok
$SIG{PIPE} = \&Plumber; # preferred form
=back
See L<perlmodlib/Pragmatic Modules>.
=head1 HISTORY
C<strict 'subs'>, with Perl 5.6.1, erroneously permitted to use an unquoted
compound identifier (e.g. C<Foo::Bar>) as a hash key (before C<< => >> or
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Flags:
category=docs
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:
Configured by iain at Fri Jan 24 08:21:58 EST 2003.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-14, archname=i686-linux
uname='linux gytha.dellah.org 2.4.18-14 #1 wed sep 4 13:35:50 edt 2002 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl/5.8.0'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/include/gdbm'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
libc=/lib/libc-2.2.93.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version='2.2.93'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
/opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux
/opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/5.8.0
/opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/site_perl/5.8.0
/opt/perl/5.8.0/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
HOME=/home/iain
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/iain/lib
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/home/iain/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
PERLDOC=-U
PERLDOC_PAGER=less -+C -E
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=zsh
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