Chas. Owens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 19:07, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 18:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nore...@gunnar.cc> wrote:
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You are encouraged to include a patch also when submitting a bug report - I
did so in the above example, btw - so I still not quite get the distinction.
Are the bug reports handled by a different group of people compared to p5p?
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No, it is my understanding that the bugs reported by perlbug go to p5p
(I have definitely seen them there including the one you referenced),
so you, in effect, did exactly what you should have done. You did get
one response that disagreed with your change, you then sent back a
modification (not a patch). I don't know if that is why you haven't
received any further replies, or the fact that it seems like a very
small issue in comparison to things like "Yet Unicode Bugbear (or two
(or three))"[1].
1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/04/msg145780.html
This
perl -Mdiagnostics -Mstrict -e '$c =4;'
may also be why nobody really responded to your post.
I agree that perldiag says all that needs to be said. But a common way
to work with perldiag is to look up cryptic error or warning messages
when needed rather than using the diagnostics pragma.
Unfortunately the message
Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name
is not very cryptic, so you are not triggered to check perldiag.
Just to clarify: I have not (at least not yet) reported about the
wording of the error message. The bug report I was referring to above,
and that you commented on, is about how the meaning of \n is described
in perlport. Guess I'm to blame for the confusion. ;-)
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