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[BUG our() 5.005_63] our $a; throws an unecessary warning. #1070

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p5pRT opened this issue Jan 23, 2000 · 5 comments
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[BUG our() 5.005_63] our $a; throws an unecessary warning. #1070

p5pRT opened this issue Jan 23, 2000 · 5 comments

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p5pRT commented Jan 23, 2000

Migrated from rt.perl.org#2022 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT2022$

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p5pRT commented Jan 23, 2000

From @schwern

  our $a;

It should be obvious that this is far from useless as its directly
analogous to​:

  my $a;

and (almost) equivalent to​:

  use vars qw($a);

neither of which throw warnings. I suspect this is a holdover from
having​:

  $a;

throw a warning.

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Michael G Schwern schwern@​pobox.com
  http​://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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p5pRT commented Jan 23, 2000

From @schwern

  our $a;

It should be obvious that this is far from useless as its directly
analogous to​:

  my $a;

and (almost) equivalent to​:

  use vars qw($a);

neither of which throw warnings. I suspect this is a holdover from
having​:

  $a;

throw a warning.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 63) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.2.10, archname=i686-linux
  uname='linux athens 2.2.10 #3 smp mon aug 2 16​:48​:09 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
  config_args=''
  hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=2.95.2 19991109 (Debian GNU/Linux)
  cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DDEBUGGING_OPS -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS'
  ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DDEBUGGING_OPS -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc-2.1.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Compile-time options​: DEBUGGING
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Jan 3 2000 05​:17​:35
  @​INC​:
  /usr/local/perl5.005_63/lib/i686-linux
  /usr/local/perl5.005_63/lib
  /usr/local/perl5.005_63/lib/site_perl/i686-linux
  /usr/local/perl5.005_63/lib/site_perl
  .

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Michael G Schwern schwern@​pobox.com
  http​://www.pobox.com/~schwern
  /(?​:(?​:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

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p5pRT commented Jan 23, 2000

From @gsar

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00​:02​:19 EST, Michael G Schwern wrote​:

Oddly enough, the following produces a "Useless use of a variable in
void context" warning​:

   our $a;

See archives for change#4800.

Sarathy
gsar@​ActiveState.com

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p5pRT commented Jul 14, 2003

From @rspier

chromatic say​:
#2022 is fixed in 5.8.0.

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p5pRT commented Jul 14, 2003

@rspier - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'resolved'

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