qw() Syntax Errors on 5.17

Fellow Perlers,

I fixed a bunch of "Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated" warnings in DBIx::Connector a while ago, so was surprised to get some new test failures on 5.17 yesterday:

  http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/150c3114-a728-11e1-8ac9-1d08f4b14d39

The errors are:

> syntax error at t/run.t line 148, near "$mode qw(ping no_ping fixup)"
> Global symbol "$mode" requires explicit package name at t/run.t line 149.
> syntax error at t/run.t line 153, near "}"

Sure enough, I don't have the parens there. Good, except: Why don't 5.14 or 5.16 warn on those? Maybe there are some cases that the warnings miss but are properly caught as invalid syntax in 5.17?

Thanks,

David

• qw() Syntax Errors on 5.17 by David E. Wheeler
• Re: qw() Syntax Errors on 5.17 by Zefram
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• Re: qw() Syntax Errors on 5.17 by Father Chrysostomos