strict: semicolon, not explicit package name

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#32248 (status was 'rejected')

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From @jidanni

You might want to tighten up the error messages in​:

$ perl -we 'use strict; my %t=() print %t'
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") print"
Global symbol "%t" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The problem is just a missing ";".

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From @nwc10

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10​:50​:15PM -0000, Dan Jacobson wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson
# Please include the string​: [perl #32248]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32248 >

You might want to tighten up the error messages in​:

$ perl -we 'use strict; my %t=() print %t'
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") print"
Global symbol "%t" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The problem is just a missing ";".

Patches welcome.

Have you any idea how hard it is to make the parser realise this?

Nicholas Clark

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The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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From @nwc10

If you'd taken out use strict; you'd've realised that this message has
nothing to do with it.

The quality of your bug reports is consistently dire.

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@nwc10 - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

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From @ysth

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10​:50​:15PM -0000, Dan Jacobson <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson
# Please include the string​: [perl #32248]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32248 >

You might want to tighten up the error messages in​:

$ perl -we 'use strict; my %t=() print %t'
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") print"
Global symbol "%t" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The problem is just a missing ";".

Compilers in general almost always try to continue after an error; this
enables them to report multiple actual errors in one pass. The usual
way this is accomplished is to discard tokens from the input until
what's left is a valid program. This often does result in more than
one error message per actual error. Taking the other approach, and
sometimes adding tokens until a valid program is achieved is much more
difficult; you have to decide whether to add or discard tokens, and if
adding, decide what and where to add.

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From japhy@perlmonk.org

On Oct 31, Dan Jacobson said​:

# New Ticket Created by Dan Jacobson
# Please include the string​: [perl #32248]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# <URL​: http​://rt.perl.org​:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32248 >

$ perl -we 'use strict; my %t=() print %t'
syntax error at -e line 1, near ") print"
Global symbol "%t" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The problem is just a missing ";".

But it doesn't necessarily know that. The problem Perl sees is that
you're using %t before it has been declared.

  use strict;
  my $x = $x; # yields the "global symbol" error

And anyway, Perl told you about the syntax error in the '() print'
vicinity.

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