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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-19 07:09:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-19 07:09:32 +0000 |
| commit | f0af216fc1cc450de0014850eae1a2893448510c (patch) | |
| tree | dd19705706953d03dad238c027155e63846b79c0 /pod/perldiag.pod | |
| parent | 4c82ae22ce2b9a6d9891a286b3b4d41b58d56d4e (diff) | |
| download | perl-f0af216fc1cc450de0014850eae1a2893448510c.tar.gz | |
produce better error message when \N{...} is used without
"use charnames ..."
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5819
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldiag.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 6f96ec22e2..93b967bc91 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -1255,15 +1255,12 @@ workarounds. inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and workarounds. -=item constant(%s): %%^H is not localized - -(F) When setting compile-time-lexicalized hash %^H one should set the -corresponding bit of $^H as well. - =item constant(%s): %s -(F) Compile-time-substitutions (such as overloaded constants and -character names) were not correctly set up. +(F) The parser found inconsistencies either while attempting to define an +overloaded constant, or when trying to find the character name specified +in the C<\N{...}> escape. Perhaps you forgot to load the corresponding +C<overload> or C<charnames> pragma? See L<charnames> and L<overload>. =item Copy method did not return a reference |