[perl #112952] use strict does not catch ${^_UNDECLARED_VAR_NAME}

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This is a bug report for perl from james_avera@yahoo.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.4.

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'use strict' does not catch undeclared variables in the newer ${^NAME} 
syntax.

For example ${^BOGUS} and ${^_BOGUS} are silently accepted.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;

for my $varname ('BOGUS', '{BOGUS}', '{^_BOGUS}', '{^BOGUS}') {
   my $stmt = "my \$x = \$$varname;";
   eval $stmt;
   print $@;
   if ($@) {
     print "Compile error: $stmt\n";
   } else {
     print "NO      error: $stmt\n";
   }
}
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Flags:
     category=library
     severity=low
     module=strict
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Site configuration information for perl 5.12.4:

Configured by Debian Project at Tue Sep  6 08:08:24 UTC 2011.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 4) configuration:

   Platform:
     osname=linux, osvers=2.6.24-28-server, 
archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
     uname='linux allspice 2.6.24-28-server #1 smp wed aug 18 21:17:51 
utc 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
     config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN 
-Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr 
-Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.12 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.12 
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 
-Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local 
-Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4 
-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 
-Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Duse64bitint -Dman1ext=1 
-Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm 
-Uusesfio -Uusenm -Ui_libutil -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib 
-Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.12.4 -des'
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
     useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
     optimize='-O2 -g',
     cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing 
-pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
     ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.1', gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
     ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=8, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
     libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
     libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
     perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
     libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.12.4
     gnulibc_version='2.13'
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib 
-fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl 5.12.4:
     /home/jima/local/share/perl/5.12.4
     /home/jima/local/share/perl
     /home/jima/lib/perl
     /etc/perl
     /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4
     /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.4
     /usr/lib/perl5
     /usr/share/perl5
     /usr/lib/perl/5.12
     /usr/share/perl/5.12
     /usr/local/lib/site_perl
     .

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Environment for perl 5.12.4:
     HOME=/home/jima
     LANG=en_US.UTF-8
     LANGUAGE (unset)
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jima/local/lib
     LOGDIR (unset)
 
PATH=/home/jima/bin:/home/jima/local/bin:/home/jima/jima_tools/linux86_64/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/opt/openoffice.org3/program:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
     PERL5LIB=/home/jima/local/share/perl:/home/jima/lib/perl
     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
     SHELL=/bin/bash

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