Ignore a lvalue attribute after the subroutine has been defined, and warn about it...

[perl5.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 320e46a..2b8d2c0 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1926,8 +1926,8 @@ to your Perl administrator.
 
 =item Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s
 
-(W syntax) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration.  Legal
-characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, and \.
+(W illegalproto) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration.
+Legal characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, and \.
 
 =item Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine
 
@@ -2307,6 +2307,14 @@ You may wish to switch to using L<Math::BigInt> explicitly.
 by that?  lstat() makes sense only on filenames.  (Perl did a fstat()
 instead on the filehandle.)
 
+=item lvalue attribute ignored after the subroutine has been defined
+
+(W) Making a subroutine an lvalue subroutine after it has been defined
+by declaring the subroutine with a lvalue attribute is not
+possible. To make the the subroutine a lvalue subroutine add the
+lvalue attribute to the definition, or put the the declaration before
+the definition.
+
 =item Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet
 
 (F) Due to limitations in the current implementation, array and hash
@@ -3535,7 +3543,7 @@ in L<perlos2>.
 
 =item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s
 
-(W syntax) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is useless,
+(W illegalproto) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is useless,
 since % and @ gobble the rest of the subroutine arguments.
 
 =item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s