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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/strict.pm | 7 |
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diff --git a/lib/strict.pm b/lib/strict.pm index 1a9a25904a..40fb56e1d3 100644 --- a/lib/strict.pm +++ b/lib/strict.pm @@ -124,8 +124,13 @@ See L<perlmodlib/Pragmatic Modules>. =head1 HISTORY -C<strict 'subs'>, with perl 5.6.1, erroneously permitted to use an unquoted +C<strict 'subs'>, with Perl 5.6.1, erroneously permitted to use an unquoted compound identifier (e.g. C<Foo::Bar>) as a hash key (before C<< => >> or inside curlies), but without forcing it always to a literal string. +Starting with Perl 5.8.1 strict is strict about its restrictions: +if unknown restrictions are used, the strict pragma will abort with + + Unknown 'strict' tag(s) '...' + =cut |