From tchrist@jhereg.perl.com

% perl -Mdiagnostics -we 'print $x[-1]'
Name "main​::x" used only once​: possible typo at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value at -e line 1 (#1)
 
  (W) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was
  interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this
  warning assign an initial value to your variables.
 
[Exit 0]

Something is strange there. It looks like a couple of diags didn't
make it. Any ideas?

--tom

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Tom Christiansen writes​:

% perl -Mdiagnostics -we 'print "fred"/0'
Argument "fred" isn't numeric in divide at -e line 1 (#1)
Argument "fred" isn't numeric in divide at -e line 1.
Illegal division by zero at -e line 1 (#2)

\(F\) You tried to divide a number by 0\.  Either something was wrong in your
logic\, or you need to put a conditional in to guard against meaningless input\.

Uncaught exception from user code​:
Illegal division by zero at -e line 1.
[Exit 2]

% perl -Mdiagnostics -we 'print $x[-1]'
Name "main​::x" used only once​: possible typo at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value at -e line 1 (#1)

\(W\) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined\.  It was
interpreted as a "" or a 0\, but maybe it was a mistake\.  To suppress this
warning assign an initial value to your variables\.

[Exit 0]

Something is strange there. It looks like a couple of diags didn't
make it. Any ideas?

Most compile-time messages are warnings (by obvious reasons - they are
not fatal - compiler looks forwards for more errors). Probably
diagnostics should set __WARN__ handler which checks $^S. (sp?)

Ilya

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Most compile-time messages are warnings (by obvious reasons - they are
not fatal - compiler looks forwards for more errors). Probably
diagnostics should set __WARN__ handler which checks $^S. (sp?)

I keep hoping Larry will follow through on his musings of
deprecating that whole mess.

--tom