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| author | James Mastros <james@mastros.biz> | 2010-06-02 18:32:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-07-26 10:13:02 +0200 |
| commit | 397d0f13088c8f2fc07173a360ea1bb9227301e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e6297ab53cf9e613e699f7033100a1dd9d62dbf /pod/perldiag.pod | |
| parent | 4da603770916eeea54d6ad0bca34bd83bd01dc35 (diff) | |
| download | perl-397d0f13088c8f2fc07173a360ea1bb9227301e5.tar.gz | |
Document "Ambiguous use of -%s resolved as -&%s()"
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 793bcddeb4..9d4451fe35 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ please write C<$foo[2]>, or you might have meant to pass an anonymous arrayref to the function named foo, then do a scalar deref on the value it returns. If you meant that, write C<${foo([2])}>. +=item Ambiguous use of -%s resolved as -&%s() at - line 3. + +(W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<-foo>, which might be the +string C<"-foo"> (outside of C<use strict 'subs'>), or a call to the +function C<foo>, negated. If you meant the string, just write +C<"-foo">, and please use strict. If you meant the function call, +write C<-foo()>. + =item '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |