Package: perl Version: 5.28.1-6 Severity: normal The following does no yield any error:
perl -e 'use strict; my $x = - Inf;' This does not seem to be intended. The strict(3perl) man page says: "strict subs" This disables the poetry optimization, generating a compile-time error if you try to use a bareword identifier that's not a subroutine, unless it is a simple identifier (no colons) and that it appears in curly braces or on the left hand side of the "=>" symbol. use strict 'subs'; $SIG{PIPE} = Plumber; # blows up $SIG{PIPE} = "Plumber"; # fine: quoted string is always ok $SIG{PIPE} = \&Plumber; # preferred form and the perldata(1) man page says: Some people may wish to outlaw barewords entirely. If you say use strict 'subs'; then any bareword that would NOT be interpreted as a subroutine call produces a compile-time error instead. [...] There does not seem to be an exception after a minus operator. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages perl depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii libperl5.28 5.28.1-6 ii perl-base 5.28.1-6 ii perl-modules-5.28 5.28.1-6 Versions of packages perl recommends: ii netbase 5.6 Versions of packages perl suggests: pn libb-debug-perl <none> pn liblocale-codes-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl <none> ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii perl-doc 5.28.1-6 -- no debconf information