[perl #77086] "bless \my $foo, $package; shouldn’t warn"

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$ perl5.13.3 -we 'my $package = "gron"; bless \my $anon, $package;'Parentheses missing around "my" list at -e line 1.

This warning seems erroneous and misleading. I think I know why it’s happening, but it would be nice if it could be suppressed automatically for such a common idiom as this.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=wishlist
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Site configuration information for perl 5.13.3:

Configured by sprout at Sat Jul 31 05:50:29 PDT 2010.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 13 subversion 3 patch v5.13.3-140-g79504a3) configuration:
  Snapshot of: 79504a3e595470dc0a74cb78989091a8e9f7b0ce
  Platform:
    osname=darwin, osvers=10.4.0, archname=darwin-2level
    uname='darwin pint.local 10.4.0 darwin kernel version 10.4.0: fri apr 23 18:28:53 pdt 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1release_i386 i386 '
    config_args='-de -Dusedevel'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    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-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    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 =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -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 -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.13.3:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.13.3/darwin-2level
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.13.3
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.13.3/darwin-2level
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.13.3
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl 5.13.3:
    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    HOME=/Users/sprout
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #77086] "bless \my $foo, $package; shouldn’t warn" by Father Chrysostomos