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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-21 06:06:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-21 06:06:44 +0000 |
| commit | cc507455df60f06ecd74b2df5a0ae9f17fb3291d (patch) | |
| tree | 5f131231aae2e4f8465cd9aa6647185d789c82fc /pod | |
| parent | 90430aa1bf5124b92f92cfc6b13f379955a95711 (diff) | |
| download | perl-cc507455df60f06ecd74b2df5a0ae9f17fb3291d.tar.gz | |
make parenthetic warnings look consistent; make diagnostic on
"use 5.6" et al mention the alternate form; pod fixups
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5851
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 14 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 680bcb76e4..3ee5f1b0d6 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ That name might have a meaning to Perl itself some day, even though it doesn't yet. Perhaps you should use a mixed-case attribute name, instead. See L<attributes>. -=item (in cleanup) %s +=item (in cleanup) %s (W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised the indicated exception. Since destructors are usually called by @@ -2247,7 +2247,7 @@ just use C<if (%hash) { # not empty }> for example. See Server error. -=item Did you mean "local" instead of "our"? +=item (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?) (W misc) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global variable. You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which seems superfluous. diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index a988124b5b..7e41e538e3 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Perl yourself. instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. -=item (in cleanup) %s +=item (in cleanup) %s (W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised the indicated exception. Since destructors are usually called by @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ repeated. Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could also result in this warning. See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>. -=item (Missing semicolon on previous line?) +=item (Missing semicolon on previous line?) (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s found where operator expected". Don't automatically put a semicolon on @@ -1313,16 +1313,16 @@ twisted to write code that triggers this error. See Server error. -=item Did you mean &%s instead? +=item (Did you mean &%s instead?) (W) You probably referred to an imported subroutine &FOO as $FOO or some such. -=item Did you mean "local" instead of "our"? +=item (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?) (W misc) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global variable. You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which seems superfluous. -=item Did you mean $ or @ instead of %? +=item (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?) (W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or @hash{@keys}. On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got carried away. @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got carried away. (F) You passed die() an empty string (the equivalent of C<die "">) or you called it with no args and both C<$@> and C<$_> were empty. -=item Do you need to predeclare %s? +=item (Do you need to predeclare %s?) (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s found where operator expected". It often means a subroutine or module @@ -1867,7 +1867,7 @@ double-quotish context. (W pipe) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or C<open(FH, "command |")> construction, but the command was missing or blank. -=item Missing operator before %s? +=item (Missing operator before %s?) (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s found where operator expected". Often the missing operator is a comma. |