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 Ambiguous use of %c{%s%s} resolved to %c%s%s
+=item Ambiguous use of %c{%s[...]} resolved to %c%s[...]
+
+=item Ambiguous use of %c{%s{...}} resolved to %c%s{...}
(W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<${foo[2]}> (where foo
represents the name of a Perl keyword), which might be looking for
The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the
escape was discovered.
+=item Invalid hexadecimal number in \N{U+...}
+
+(F) The character constant represented by C<...> is not a valid hexadecimal
+number. Either it is empty, or you tried to use a character other than
+0 - 9 or A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number.
+
=item Invalid mro name: '%s'
(F) You tried to C<mro::set_mro("classname", "foo")> or C<use mro 'foo'>,
(F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try
that yet.
-=item "%s" variable %s can't be in a package
+=item "my" variable %s can't be in a package
(F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make
sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use
local() if you want to localize a package variable.
+=item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo
+
+(W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names.
+If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it
+again somehow to suppress the message. The C<our> declaration is
+provided for this purpose.
+
+NOTE: This warning detects symbols that have been used only once so $c, @c,
+%c, *c, &c, sub c{}, c(), and c (the filehandle or format) are considered
+the same; if a program uses $c only once but also uses any of the others it
+will not trigger this warning.
+
=item \N in a character class must be a named character: \N{...}
(F) The new (5.12) meaning of C<\N> as C<[^\n]> is not valid in a bracketed
-character class, for the same reason that C<.> in a character class loses its
-specialness: it matches almost everything, which is probably not what you want.
+character class, for the same reason that C<.> in a character class loses
+its specialness: it matches almost everything, which is probably not
+what you want.
=item \N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer
-(F) When compiling a regex pattern, an unresolved named character or sequence
-was encountered. This can happen in any of several ways that bypass the lexer,
-such as using single-quotish context, or an extra backslash in double quotish:
+(F) When compiling a regex pattern, an unresolved named character or
+sequence was encountered. This can happen in any of several ways that
+bypass the lexer, such as using single-quotish context, or an extra
+backslash in double-quotish:
$re = '\N{SPACE}'; # Wrong!
$re = "\\N{SPACE}"; # Wrong!
/\N {SPACE}/x; # Wrong!
/\N{SPACE}/x; # ok
-=item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo
-
-(W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names.
-If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it
-again somehow to suppress the message. The C<our> declaration is
-provided for this purpose.
-
-NOTE: This warning detects symbols that have been used only once so $c, @c,
-%c, *c, &c, sub c{}, c(), and c (the filehandle or format) are considered
-the same; if a program uses $c only once but also uses any of the others it
-will not trigger this warning.
-
-=item Invalid hexadecimal number in \N{U+...}
-
-(F) The character constant represented by C<...> is not a valid hexadecimal
-number. Either it is empty, or you tried to use a character other than 0 - 9
-or A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number.
-
=item Negative '/' count in unpack
(F) The length count obtained from a length/code unpack operation was
constant to your name space with B<use> or B<import> while no such
importing took place, it may for example be that your operating system
does not support that particular constant. Hopefully you did use an
-explicit import list for the constants you expect to see, please see
+explicit import list for the constants you expect to see; please see
L<perlfunc/use> and L<perlfunc/import>. While an explicit import list
would probably have caught this error earlier it naturally does not
remedy the fact that your operating system still does not support that
=item No DB::DB routine defined
(F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, but
-for some reason the
current debugger (e.g. F<perl5db.pl> or a C<Devel::>
+for some reason the current debugger (e.g. F<perl5db.pl> or a C<Devel::>
module) didn't define a routine to be called at the beginning of each
statement.
(F) The indicated command line switch needs a mandatory argument, but
you haven't specified one.
+
=item No such class field "%s" in variable %s of type %s
(F) You tried to access a key from a hash through the indicated typed variable
=item No such class %s
-(F) You provided a class qualifier in a "my", "our" or "state" declaration, but
-this class doesn't exist at this point in your program.
+(F) You provided a class qualifier in a "my", "our" or "state"
+declaration, but this class doesn't exist at this point in your program.
=item No such hook: %s
-(F) You specified a signal hook that was not recognized by Perl. Currently, Perl
-accepts C<__DIE__> and C<__WARN__> as valid signal hooks
+(F) You specified a signal hook that was not recognized by Perl.
+Currently, Perl accepts C<__DIE__> and C<__WARN__> as valid signal hooks.
=item No such pipe open
=item Non-octal character '%c'. Resolved as "%s"
-(W digit) In parsing an octal numeric constant, a character was unexpectedly
-encountered that isn't octal. The resulting value is as indicated.
+(W digit) In parsing an octal numeric constant, a character was
+unexpectedly encountered that isn't octal. The resulting value is as
+indicated.
=item Non-string passed as bitmask
(W misc) A number has been passed as a bitmask argument to select().
Use the vec() function to construct the file descriptor bitmasks for
-select. See L<perlfunc/select>
+select. See L<perlfunc/select>.
=item Null filename used
=item Number with no digits
-(F) Perl was looking for a number but found nothing that looked like a number.
-This happens, for example with C<\o{}>, with no number between the braces.
+(F) Perl was looking for a number but found nothing that looked like
+a number. This happens, for example with C<\o{}>, with no number between
+the braces.
=item Octal number in vector unsupported
instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in
a block by itself.
+=item "state" variable %s can't be in a package
+
+(F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make
+sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use
+local() if you want to localize a package variable.
+
=item stat() on unopened filehandle %s
(W unopened) You tried to use the stat() function on a filehandle that
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