(retracted by #12951)

[perl5.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 7408d2f..365faa6 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ know which context to supply to the right side.
 (F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be
 greater than or equal to zero.
 
+=item Attempt to access to key '%_' in fixed hash
+
+(F) A hash has been marked as READONLY at the C level to turn it
+into a "record" with a fixed set of keys. The failing code
+has attempted to get or set the value of a key which does not
+exist or to delete a key.
+
 =item Attempt to bless into a reference
 
 (F) The CLASSNAME argument to the bless() operator is expected to be
@@ -1294,6 +1301,10 @@ Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call a method named
 "elseif" for the class returned by the following block.  This is
 unlikely to be what you want.
 
+=item Empty %s
+
+(F) Empty C<\p{}> or C<\P{}>.
+
 =item entering effective %s failed
 
 (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and
@@ -1940,6 +1951,10 @@ can vary from one line to the next.
 (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s
 found where operator expected".  Often the missing operator is a comma.
 
+=item Missing right brace on %s
+
+(F) Missing right brace in C<\p{...}> or C<\P{...}>.
+
 =item Missing right curly or square bracket
 
 (F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than closing
@@ -2309,7 +2324,7 @@ supplied it an uninitialized value.  See L<perlform>.
 =item Number too long
 
 (F) Perl limits the representation of decimal numbers in programs to
-about about 250 characters.  You've exceeded that length.  Future
+about 250 characters.  You've exceeded that length.  Future
 versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation.  In
 the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of
 "1_000_000").
@@ -3135,8 +3150,8 @@ account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables
 location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less.
 Please see the following for more information:
 
-       http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
-       http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
+       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
+       http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
        http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
        http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
@@ -3960,15 +3975,15 @@ program.
 =item Using a hash as a reference is deprecated
 
 (D deprecated) You tried to use a hash as a reference, as in
-C<< %foo->{"bar"} >> or C<< %$ref->{"hello"} >>.  Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 
-used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will 
+C<< %foo->{"bar"} >> or C<< %$ref->{"hello"} >>.  Versions of perl <= 5.6.1
+used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will
 be removed in a future version.
 
 =item Using an array as a reference is deprecated
 
 (D deprecated) You tried to use an array as a reference, as in
-C<< @foo->[23] >> or C<< @$ref->[99] >>.  Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 used to 
-allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will be 
+C<< @foo->[23] >> or C<< @$ref->[99] >>.  Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 used to
+allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will be
 removed in a future version.
 
 =item Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined()
@@ -4065,6 +4080,16 @@ where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.
 its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with
 the version number.
 
+=item v-string in use/require is non-portable
+
+(W) The use of v-strings is non-portable to older, pre-5.6, Perls.
+If you want your scripts to be backward portable, use the floating
+point version number: for example, instead of C<use 5.6.1> say
+C<use 5.006_001>.  This of course won't help: the older Perls
+won't suddenly start understanding newer features, but at least
+they will show a sensible error message indicating the required
+minimum version.
+
 =item Warning: something's wrong
 
 (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or
@@ -4134,7 +4159,7 @@ Use a filename instead.
 
 (F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the
 sources to your kernel, and your vendor probably doesn't give a rip
-about what you want.  Your best bet is to put a setuid C wrapper around 
+about what you want.  Your best bet is to put a setuid C wrapper around
 your script.
 
 =item You need to quote "%s"