Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon
the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call
C<perl -c> repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see
-if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20
-questions>.
+if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20 questions>.
=item syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected
(F) Your machine doesn't implement a file truncation mechanism that
Configure knows about.
+=item Type of arg %d to &CORE::%s must be %s
+
+(F) The subroutine in question in the CORE package requires its argument
+to be a hard reference to data of the specified type. Overloading is
+ignored, so a reference to an object that is not the specified type, but
+nonetheless has overloading to handle it, will still not be accepted.
+
=item Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not %s)
(F) This function requires the argument in that position to be of a
been decided. (Simply returning the boolean opposite of the
modified string is usually not particularly useful.)
-=item User-defined case-mapping '%s' is deprecated
-
-(W deprecated) You defined a function, such as C<ToLower> that overrides
-the standard case mapping, such as C<lc()> gives. This feature is being
-deprecated due to its many issues, as documented in
-L<perlunicode/User-Defined Case Mappings (for serious hackers only)>.
-It is planned to remove this feature in Perl 5.16. A CPAN module
-providing improved functionality is being prepared.
-
=item UTF-16 surrogate U+%X
(W utf8, surrogate) You had a UTF-16 surrogate in a context where they are
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