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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 7077088b3c..cd9583bc87 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ The symbols C<"%(-?@> sort before the letters, while C<[> and C<\> sort after. =over 4 +=item "my sub" not yet implemented + +(F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try that +yet. + =item "my" variable %s can't be in a package (F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make sense @@ -174,6 +179,13 @@ regular expression engine didn't specifically check for that. See L<perlre>. (S) The symbol in question was declared but somehow went out of scope before it could possibly have been used. +=item %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s + +(W) A lowercase attribute name was used that had a package-specific handler. +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 %s syntax OK (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> succeeds. @@ -297,7 +309,8 @@ imported with the C<use subs> pragma). To silently interpret it as the Perl operator, use the C<CORE::> prefix on the operator (e.g. C<CORE::log($x)>) or by declaring the subroutine -to be an object method (see L<attrs>). +to be an object method (see L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes"> +or L<attributes>). =item Args must match #! line @@ -1530,7 +1543,7 @@ before the illegal character. (F) The number of bits in vec() (the third argument) must be a power of two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that). - + =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s (X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the @@ -1614,6 +1627,16 @@ rebuild Perl. (P) Something went badly awry in the regular expression parser. +=item Invalid %s attribute: %s + +The indicated attribute for a subroutine or variable was not recognized +by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. + +=item Invalid %s attributes: %s + +The indicated attributes for a subroutine or variable were not recognized +by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. + =item invalid [] range in regexp (F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character @@ -1625,6 +1648,13 @@ a literal character. See L<perlre>. (W) Perl does not understand the given format conversion. See L<perlfunc/sprintf>. +=item Invalid separator character %s in attribute list + +(F) Something other than a comma or whitespace was seen between the +elements of an attribute list. If the previous attribute +had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that list was terminated +too soon. See L<attributes>. + =item Invalid type in pack: '%s' (F) The given character is not a valid pack type. See L<perlfunc/pack>. @@ -1756,6 +1786,11 @@ be created for some peculiar reason. (W) Multidimensional arrays aren't written like C<$foo[1,2,3]>. They're written like C<$foo[1][2][3]>, as in C. +=item Missing name in "my sub" + +(F) The reserved syntax for lexically scoped subroutines requires that they +have a name with which they can be found. + =item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo (W) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names. @@ -3048,6 +3083,20 @@ a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". +=item Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list + +(F) The lexer saw an opening (left) parenthesis character while parsing an +attribute list, but the matching closing (right) parenthesis +character was not found. You may need to add (or remove) a backslash +character to get your parentheses to balance. See L<attributes>. + +=item Unterminated attribute list + +(F) The lexer found something other than a simple identifier at the start +of an attribute, and it wasn't a semicolon or the start of a +block. Perhaps you terminated the parameter list of the previous attribute +too soon. See L<attributes>. + =item Use of $# is deprecated (D) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a poorly defined B<awk> feature. |