On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:43:54PM -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:37:16AM -0600, Steve Peters wrote:
>
> > Looking at the perldoc for use, anything after the module name must be a
> > list.
> > So,
> >
> > use base "C";
> >
> > is correct, and
> >
> > use base C;
> >
> > should give you a compile error as you demonstrated above.
>
> I think the complaint was that the error message is "Unknown error" rather
> than something more descriptive, like "Bareword not allowed after module
> name in use statement".
This appears to be fixed in bleedperl:
$ ./perl -I/home/davem/tmp/x -Ilib -MA
Bareword "C" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
/home/davem/tmp/x/A.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
$
somewhere between changes 19162 and 19306; probably 19170 judging by the
log entry:
[ 19170] By: rgs on 2003/04/08 19:47:05
Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: Error: Unknown error
From: Enache Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:12:13 +0300
Looks like it never got integrated into the 5.8.x branch.
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