PATCH: Restore "Can't declare scalar dereference in my" error

Message-ID: <20011224231448.25826.qmail@plover.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13881

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/op.c b/op.c
index c7330521d7..efb99e0939 100644
--- a/op.c
+++ b/op.c
@@ -2043,6 +2043,9 @@ S_my_kid(pTHX_ OP *o, OP *attrs, OP **imopsp)
     } else if (type == OP_RV2SV ||	/* "our" declaration */
 	       type == OP_RV2AV ||
 	       type == OP_RV2HV) { /* XXX does this let anything illegal in? */
+      if (cUNOPo->op_first->op_type != OP_GV) { /* MJD 20011224 */
+           yyerror(form("Can't declare %s in my", OP_DESC(o)));
+        }
         if (attrs) {
             GV *gv = cGVOPx_gv(cUNOPo->op_first);
             PL_in_my = FALSE;
diff --git a/t/op/eval.t b/t/op/eval.t
index 42a71e2593..17b8d9d689 100755
--- a/t/op/eval.t
+++ b/t/op/eval.t
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!./perl
 
-print "1..41\n";
+print "1..45\n";
 
 eval 'print "ok 1\n";';
 
@@ -221,3 +221,16 @@ print $@;
     };
     print "not ok 41\n" if $@;
 }
+
+# Make sure that "my $$x" is forbidden
+# 20011224 MJD
+{
+  eval q{my $$x};
+  print $@ ? "ok 42\n" : "not ok 42\n";
+  eval q{my @$x};
+  print $@ ? "ok 43\n" : "not ok 43\n";
+  eval q{my %$x};
+  print $@ ? "ok 44\n" : "not ok 44\n";
+  eval q{my $$$x};
+  print $@ ? "ok 45\n" : "not ok 45\n";
+}