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On 03/30/2017 09:26 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:52:20PM +0000, Matt S Trout wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:38:29PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: >>> Does the following change to the 'do' entry in perlfunc look plausible to >>> cope withe the facts that: >>> * dot is now removed from @INC by default; >>> * do now warns; >> I would also make sure that the example uses ./ > Well, the first example within the '=item do EXPR' section is > > do './stat.pl'; > > Is that what you meant? > >> and instead of just >> >> do "stat.pl" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC >> >> the warning should be >> >> do "stat.pl" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC, did you mean do "./stat.pl" ? >> >> ala the "did you need to install" error on require() failure. > I'd be reluctant to change the warning at this extremely late stage. > Although if (as indicated in another thread) we need to fix up a whole > load of code within the perl distribution that does 'do' anyway, then > perhaps it not to late. Anyone else have an opinion? I'm not *too* worried about changing the warning again, since the previous warning message was just one dev release ago. I think this is a useful warning and I'm sorry I didn't figure it out when Tony asked me how it should look like. D'oh. It would definitely save a lot of headache and it's just a string change. (Famous last words.)Thread Previous | Thread Next