[perl #118455] "no warnings 'exec'" does not disable "Statement unlikely to be reached"

On Wed Jun 12 12:53:10 2013, rjbs wrote:
> I have pushed 3cf2ee4e44b339198562fa5f52af6a52e85d52a8 as smoke-
> me/rjbs/exec-
> warning.
> 
> Please give it a look, anybody, and comment before I merge in a day or
> three.

The fix looks perfectly correct to me.

Interestingly....

599cee73f2261 (Aug 98) put it in the syntax category.  eeb6a2c983b (Jan
2000, entitled ‘wrong category for exec() warning’) made it inconsistent.

So ‘use warnings "syntax"’ enables that warning.  ‘use warnings FATAL =>
'exec'’ fatalizes it; but, of course, it is only fatal if it happens,
which is when ‘syntax’ warnings are enabled.  Fascinating. :-)

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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• [perl #118455] "no warnings 'exec'" does not disable "Statement unlikely to be reached" by Ricardo SIGNES via RT
• [perl #118455] "no warnings 'exec'" does not disable "Statement unlikely to be reached" by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #118455] "no warnings 'exec'" does not disable "Statementunlikely to be reached" by Ricardo Signes