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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2001-11-19 14:26:45 +0100
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-19 14:09:34 +0000
commita801c63c4c283fdf8af1d9fbd7d3d89096ee73f6 (patch)
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new warning "Useless use of sort in scalar context"
Message-ID: <20011119132645.A15034@rafael> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13094
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@@ -3844,6 +3844,14 @@ about.
(W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments. That isn't very useful.
+=item Useless use of sort in scalar context
+
+(W void) You used sort in scalar context, as in :
+
+ my $x = sort @y;
+
+This is not very useful, and perl currently optimizes this away.
+
=item Useless use of %s with no values
(W syntax) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments