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+//depot/perl/pod/perldiag.pod#272 - edit change 14824 (text)
 =head1 NAME
 
 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
@@ -182,12 +183,7 @@ spots.  This is now heavily deprecated.
 must either both be scalars or both be lists.  Otherwise Perl won't
 know which context to supply to the right side.
 
-=item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context
-
-(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
+=item Attempt to access 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
@@ -1227,6 +1223,11 @@ array is empty, just use C<if (@array) { # not empty }> for example.
 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.
 
+=item %s defines neither package nor VERSION--version check failed
+
+(F) You said something like "use Module 42" but in the Module file
+there are neither package declarations nor a C<$VERSION>.
+
 =item Delimiter for here document is too long
 
 (F) In a here document construct like C<<<FOO>, the label C<FOO> is too
@@ -1270,6 +1271,11 @@ you called it with no args and both C<$@> and C<$_> were empty.
 
 See Server error.
 
+=item %s does not define %s::VERSION--version check failed
+
+(F) You said something like "use Module 42" but the Module did not
+define a C<$VERSION.>
+
 =item Don't know how to handle magic of type '%s'
 
 (P) The internal handling of magical variables has been cursed.
@@ -1351,6 +1357,10 @@ Perl identifier.  If you're just trying to glob a long list of
 filenames, try using the glob() operator, or put the filenames into a
 variable and glob that.
 
+=item exec? I'm not *that* kind of operating system
+
+(F) The C<exec> function is not implemented in MacPerl. See L<perlport>.
+
 =item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors
 
 (F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails.
@@ -1559,6 +1569,11 @@ version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway.
 (F) Unlike with "next" or "last", you're not allowed to goto an
 unspecified destination.  See L<perlfunc/goto>.
 
+=item %s-group starts with a count
+
+(F) In pack/unpack a ()-group started with a count.  A count is
+supposed to follow something: a template character or a ()-group.
+
 =item %s had compilation errors
 
 (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails.
@@ -2025,6 +2040,13 @@ couldn't be created for some peculiar reason.
 you omitted the name of the module.  Consult L<perlrun> for full details
 about C<-M> and C<-m>.
 
+=item More than one argument to open
+
+(F) The C<open> function has been asked to open multiple files. This
+can happen if you are trying to open a pipe to a command that takes a
+list of arguments, but have forgotten to specify a piped open mode.
+See L<perlfunc/open> for details.
+
 =item msg%s not implemented
 
 (F) You don't have System V message IPC on your system.
@@ -2074,6 +2096,11 @@ provided for this purpose.
 (F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with a buffer
 length that is less than 0.  This is difficult to imagine.
 
+=item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context
+
+(F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be
+greater than or equal to zero.
+
 =item Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
 
 (F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So
@@ -2308,6 +2335,12 @@ supplied.  See L<perlform>.
 of Perl.  Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
 yourself.
 
+=item %s not allowed in length fields
+
+(F) The count in the (un)pack template may be replaced by C<[TEMPLATE]> only if
+C<TEMPLATE> always matches the same amount of packed bytes.  Redesign
+the template.
+
 =item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC
 
 (S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl was unable to find the local
@@ -2782,7 +2815,9 @@ marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
 
 (F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown.  The <-- HERE
 shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered.
-See L<perlre>.
+Note that the POSIX character classes do B<not> have the C<is> prefix
+the corresponding C interfaces have: in other words, it's C<[[:print:]]>,
+not C<isprint>.  See L<perlre>.
 
 =item POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument
 
@@ -2913,6 +2948,11 @@ in L<perlos2>.
 (S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been
 declared or defined with a different function prototype.
 
+=item Prototype not terminated
+
+(F) You've omitted the closing parenthesis in a function prototype 
+definition.
+
 =item Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex;
 
 marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
@@ -4016,6 +4056,13 @@ use, or using a different name altogether.  The warning can be
 suppressed for subroutine names by either adding a C<&> prefix, or using
 a package qualifier, e.g. C<&our()>, or C<Foo::our()>.
 
+=item Use of tainted arguments in %s is deprecated
+
+(W taint) You have supplied C<system()> or C<exec()> with multiple 
+arguments and at least one of them is tainted.  This used to be allowed
+but will become a fatal error in a future version of perl.  Untaint your
+arguments.  See L<perlsec>.
+
 =item Use of uninitialized value%s
 
 (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already