(W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<@{foo}>, which might be
asking for the variable C<@foo>, or it might be calling a function
named foo, and dereferencing it as an array reference. If you wanted
-the varable, you can just write C<@foo>. If you wanted to call the
+the variable, you can just write C<@foo>. If you wanted to call the
function, write C<@{foo()}> ... or you could just not have a variable
and a function with the same name, and save yourself a lot of trouble.
=item Argument list not closed for PerlIO layer "%s"
-(W layer) When pushing a layer with arguments onto the Perl I/O system you
-forgot the ) that closes the argument list. (Layers take care of transforming
-data between external and internal representations.) Perl stopped parsing
-the layer list at this point and did not attempt to push this layer.
-If your program didn't explicitly request the failing operation, it may be
-the result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO.
+(W layer) When pushing a layer with arguments onto the Perl I/O
+system you forgot the ) that closes the argument list. (Layers
+take care of transforming data between external and internal
+representations.) Perl stopped parsing the layer list at this
+point and did not attempt to push this layer. If your program
+didn't explicitly request the failing operation, it may be the
+result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO.
=item Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s()
=item assertion botched: %s
-(P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure.
+(X) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure.
=item Assertion failed: file "%s"
-(P) A general assertion failed. The file in question must be examined.
+(X) A general assertion failed. The file in question must be examined.
+
+=item Assigning non-zero to $[ is no longer possible
+
+(F) When the "array_base" feature is disabled (e.g., under C<use v5.16;>)
+the special variable C<$[>, which is deprecated, is now a fixed zero value.
=item Assignment to both a list and a scalar
=item A thread exited while %d threads were running
-(W threads)(S) When using threaded Perl, a thread (not necessarily the main
-thread) exited while there were still other threads running.
+(W threads)(S) When using threaded Perl, a thread (not necessarily
+the main thread) exited while there were still other threads running.
Usually it's a good idea first to collect the return values of the
created threads by joining them, and only then to exit from the main
thread. See L<threads>.
=item Attempt to bless into a reference
(F) The CLASSNAME argument to the bless() operator is expected to be
-the name of the package to bless the resulting object into. You've
+the name of the package to bless the resulting object into. You've
supplied instead a reference to something: perhaps you wrote
bless $self, $proto;
=item Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%x
-(P internal) All SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas
+(S internal) All SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas
that will be garbage collected on exit. An SV was discovered to be
outside any of those arenas.
-=item Attempt to free nonexistent shared string
+=item Attempt to free nonexistent shared string '%s'%s
-(P internal) Perl maintains a reference-counted internal table of
+(S internal) Perl maintains a reference-counted internal table of
strings to optimize the storage and access of hash keys and other
strings. This indicates someone tried to decrement the reference count
of a string that can no longer be found in the table.
=item Attempt to free temp prematurely
-(W debugging) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the
+(S debugging) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the
free_tmps() routine. This indicates that something else is freeing the
SV before the free_tmps() routine gets a chance, which means that the
free_tmps() routine will be freeing an unreferenced scalar when it does
=item Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers
-(P internal) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol aliases.
+(S internal) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol aliases.
=item Attempt to free unreferenced scalar
=item Attribute "locked" is deprecated
-(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify the "locked"
-attribute on a code reference. The :locked attribute is obsolete, has had no
-effect since 5005 threads were removed, and will be removed in a future
-release of Perl 5.
+(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify the
+"locked" attribute on a code reference. The :locked attribute is
+obsolete, has had no effect since 5005 threads were removed, and
+will be removed in a future release of Perl 5.
=item Attribute "unique" is deprecated
-(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify the "unique"
-attribute on an array, hash or scalar reference. The :unique attribute has
-had no effect since Perl 5.8.8, and will be removed in a future release
-of Perl 5.
+(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify
+the "unique" attribute on an array, hash or scalar reference.
+The :unique attribute has had no effect since Perl 5.8.8, and
+will be removed in a future release of Perl 5.
=item Bad arg length for %s, is %u, should be %d
(P) An internal request asked to add a dirhandle entry to something
that wasn't a symbol table entry.
-
=item Bad symbol for filehandle
(P) An internal request asked to add a filehandle entry to something
(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as "my", "our" or
"state" variables. They must have ordinary identifiers as names.
+=item Can't "default" outside a topicalizer
+
+(F) You have used a C<default> block that is neither inside a
+C<foreach> loop nor a C<given> block. (Note that this error is
+issued on exit from the C<default> block, so you won't get the
+error if you use an explicit C<continue>.)
+
=item Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file
(S inplace) You tried to use the B<-i> switch on a special file, such as
=item Can't resolve method "%s" overloading "%s" in package "%s"
-(F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as opposed
-to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the package. If
-the method name is C<???>, this is an internal error.
+(F)(P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as
+opposed to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the
+package. If the method name is C<???>, this is an internal error.
=item Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine
value that prints out looking like SCALAR(0xdecaf). Use the $1 form
instead.
-=item Can't use "when" outside a topicalizer
-
-(F) You have used a when() block that is neither inside a C<foreach>
-loop nor a C<given> block. (Note that this error is issued on exit
-from the C<when> block, so you won't get the error if the match fails,
-or if you use an explicit C<continue>.)
-
=item Can't weaken a nonreference
(F) You attempted to weaken something that was not a reference. Only
references can be weakened.
+=item Can't "when" outside a topicalizer
+
+(F) You have used a when() block that is neither inside a C<foreach>
+loop nor a C<given> block. (Note that this error is issued on exit
+from the C<when> block, so you won't get the error if the match fails,
+or if you use an explicit C<continue>.)
+
=item Can't x= to read-only value
(F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the undefined value)
=item Character following "\c" must be ASCII
-(F|W deprecated, syntax) In C<\cI<X>>, I<X> must be an ASCII character.
+(F)(W deprecated, syntax) In C<\cI<X>>, I<X> must be an ASCII character.
It is planned to make this fatal in all instances in Perl 5.16. In the
cases where it isn't fatal, the character this evaluates to is
derived by exclusive or'ing the code point of this character with 0x40.
=item Code point 0x%X is not Unicode, may not be portable
-=item Code point 0x%X is not Unicode, no properties match it; all inverse properties do
+=item Code point 0x%X is not Unicode, all \p{} matches fail; all \P{} matches succeed
(W utf8, non_unicode) You had a code point above the Unicode maximum of U+10FFFF.
will match.
+This may be counterintuitive at times, as both these fail:
+
+ chr(0x110000) =~ \p{ASCII_Hex_Digit=True} # Fails.
+ chr(0x110000) =~ \p{ASCII_Hex_Digit=False} # Also fails!
+
+and both these succeed:
+
+ chr(0x110000) =~ \P{ASCII_Hex_Digit=True} # Succeeds.
+ chr(0x110000) =~ \P{ASCII_Hex_Digit=False} # Also succeeds!
+
=item %s: Command not found
(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.
forgot to load the corresponding C<charnames> pragma?
See L<charnames>.
-
=item Constant is not %s reference
(F) A constant value (perhaps declared using the C<use constant> pragma)
=item Constant subroutine %s redefined
-(S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been
-eligible for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for
-commentary and workarounds.
+(W redefine)(S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously
+been eligible for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions">
+for commentary and workarounds.
=item Constant subroutine %s undefined
(F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See
L<overload/Copy Constructor>.
+=item &CORE::%s cannot be called directly
+
+(F) You tried to call a subroutine in the C<CORE::> namespace
+with C<&foo> syntax or through a reference. Most subroutines
+in this package cannot yet be called that way, but must be
+called as barewords. Something like this will work:
+
+ BEGIN { *shove = \&CORE::push; }
+ shove @array, 1,2,3; # pushes on to @array
+
=item CORE::%s is not a keyword
(F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords.
=item defined(%hash) is deprecated
-(D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on hashes because it
-checks for an undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the hash
-is empty, just use C<if (%hash) { # not empty }> for example.
+(D deprecated) C<defined()> is not usually right on hashes and has been
+discouraged since 5.004.
+
+Although C<defined %hash> is false on a plain not-yet-used hash, it
+becomes true in several non-obvious circumstances, including iterators,
+weak references, stash names, even remaining true after C<undef %hash>.
+These things make C<defined %hash> fairly useless in practice.
+
+If a check for non-empty is what you wanted then just put it in boolean
+context (see L<perldata/Scalar values>):
+
+ if (%hash) {
+ # not empty
+ }
+
+If you had C<defined %Foo::Bar::QUUX> to check whether such a package
+variable exists then that's never really been reliable, and isn't
+a good way to enquire about the features of a package, or whether
+it's loaded, etc.
+
=item (?(DEFINE)....) does not allow branches in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(W overflow) You called C<gmtime> with a number that was larger than
it can reliably handle and C<gmtime> probably returned the wrong
-date. This warning is also triggered with nan (the special
+date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special
not-a-number value).
=item gmtime(%f) too small
(W overflow) You called C<gmtime> with a number that was smaller than
it can reliably handle and C<gmtime> probably returned the wrong
-date. This warning is also triggered with nan (the special
+date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special
not-a-number value).
=item Got an error from DosAllocMem
binary number. Interpretation of the binary number stopped before the
offending digit.
+=item Illegal character after '_' in prototype for %s : %s
+
+(W illegalproto) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration.
+Legal characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, \, and +.
+
=item Illegal character \%o (carriage return)
(F) Perl normally treats carriage returns in the program text as it
function, i.e. C<\p{IsFoo}> or C<\p{InFoo}>.
See L<perlunicode/User-Defined Character Properties> and L<perlsec>.
-
=item Integer overflow in format string for %s
(F) The indexes and widths specified in the format string of C<printf()>
perls, has been removed as of 5.9.3 and is no longer supported. You
should use the printf/sprintf functions instead.
-=item `%s' is not a code reference
+=item '%s' is not a code reference
(W overload) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant
needs to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference
to a subroutine.
-=item `%s' is not an overloadable type
+=item '%s' is not an overloadable type
(W overload) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is
unaware of.
length/code combination tried to obtain more data. This results in
an undefined value for the length. See L<perlfunc/pack>.
+=item length() used on %s
+
+(W syntax) You used length() on either an array or a hash when you
+probably wanted a count of the items.
+
+Array size can be obtained by doing:
+
+ scalar(@array);
+
+The number of items in a hash can be obtained by doing:
+
+ scalar(keys %hash);
+
=item Lexing code attempted to stuff non-Latin-1 character into Latin-1 input
(F) An extension is attempting to insert text into the current parse
(W overflow) You called C<localtime> with a number that was larger
than it can reliably handle and C<localtime> probably returned the
-wrong date. This warning is also triggered with nan (the special
+wrong date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special
not-a-number value).
=item localtime(%f) too small
(W overflow) You called C<localtime> with a number that was smaller
than it can reliably handle and C<localtime> probably returned the
-wrong date. This warning is also triggered with nan (the special
+wrong date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special
not-a-number value).
=item Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex m/%s/
by that? lstat() makes sense only on filenames. (Perl did a fstat()
instead on the filehandle.)
+=item lvalue attribute cannot be removed after the subroutine has been defined
+
+(W misc) The lvalue attribute on a Perl subroutine cannot be turned off
+once the subroutine is defined.
+
=item lvalue attribute ignored after the subroutine has been defined
-(W misc) Making a subroutine an lvalue subroutine after it has been defined
-by declaring the subroutine with an lvalue attribute is not
-possible. To make the subroutine an lvalue subroutine add the
-lvalue attribute to the definition, or put the declaration before
-the definition.
+(W misc) Making a Perl subroutine an lvalue subroutine after it has been
+defined, whether by declaring the subroutine with an lvalue attribute
+or by using L<attributes.pm|attributes>, is not possible. To make the subroutine an
+lvalue subroutine, add the lvalue attribute to the definition, or put
+the declaration before the definition.
=item Malformed integer in [] in pack
=item NULL OP IN RUN
-(P debugging) Some internal routine called run() with a null opcode
+(S debugging) Some internal routine called run() with a null opcode
pointer.
=item Null picture in formline
=item Offset outside string
-(F|W layer) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv/seek operation
+(F)(W layer) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv/seek operation
with an offset pointing outside the buffer. This is difficult to
imagine. The sole exceptions to this are that zero padding will
take place when going past the end of the string when either
=item Out of memory during request for %s
-(X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was
+(X)(F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was
insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the
request.
(P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset a weak
reference.
-=item panic: Devel::DProf inconsistent subroutine return
-
-(P) Devel::DProf called a subroutine that exited using goto(LABEL),
-last(LABEL) or next(LABEL). Leaving that way a subroutine called from
-an XSUB will lead very probably to a crash of the interpreter. This is
-a bug that will hopefully one day get fixed.
-
=item panic: die %s
(P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered
(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of realloc.
+=item panic: reference miscount on nsv in sv_replace() (%d != 1)
+
+(P) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with a
+reference count other than 1.
+
=item panic: restartop
(P) Some internal routine requested a goto (or something like it), and
(P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there
was string.
+=item panic: strxfrm() gets absurd - a => %u, ab => %u
+
+(P) The interpreter's sanity check of the C function strxfrm() failed.
+In your current locale the returned transformation of the string "ab" is
+shorter than that of the string "a", which makes no sense.
+
=item panic: top_env
(P) The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something weird like that.
=item Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string
-(W ambiguous) You said something like `@foo' in a double-quoted string
+(W ambiguous) You said something like '@foo' in a double-quoted string
but there was no array C<@foo> in scope at the time. If you wanted a
literal @foo, then write it as \@foo; otherwise find out what happened
to the array you apparently lost track of.
(W misc) You have attempted to weaken a reference that is already weak.
Doing so has no effect.
-=item Reference miscount in sv_replace()
-
-(W internal) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with
-a reference count other than 1.
-
=item Reference to invalid group 0
(F) You used C<\g0> or similar in a regular expression. You may refer to
(F) A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more
or less than one element. See L<perlfunc/sort>.
+=item Source filters apply only to byte streams
+
+(F) You tried to activate a source filter (usually by loading a
+source filter module) within a string passed to C<eval>. This is
+not permitted under the C<unicode_eval> feature. Consider using
+C<evalbytes> instead. See L<feature>.
+
=item splice() offset past end of array
(W misc) You attempted to specify an offset that was past the end of
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
+=item syntax error at line %d: '%s' unexpected
(A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead
of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
...
This is to prevent the problem of one module changing the array base out
-from under another module inadvertently. See L<perlvar/$[>.
+from under another module inadvertently. See L<perlvar/$[> and L<arybase>.
=item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia
(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
(F) You called a Win32 function with incorrect arguments.
See L<Win32> for more information.
+=item $[ used in %s (did you mean $] ?)
+
+(W syntax) You used C<$[> in a comparison, such as:
+
+ if ($[ > 5.006) {
+ ...
+ }
+
+You probably meant to use C<$]> instead. C<$[> is the base for indexing
+arrays. C<$]> is the Perl version number in decimal.
+
=item Useless assignment to a temporary
(W misc) You assigned to an lvalue subroutine, but what
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
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<warnings>, L<perllexwarn>.
+L<warnings>, L<perllexwarn>, L<diagnostics>.
=cut
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