(W) A warning (optional).
(D) A deprecation (optional).
- (S) A severe warning (default).
+ (S) A severe warning (enabled by default).
(F) A fatal error (trappable).
(P) An internal error you should never see (trappable).
(X) A very fatal error (nontrappable).
to a reference to a routine that will be called on each warning instead
of printing it. See L<perlvar>.
-Default warnings are always enabled unless they are explicitly disabled
+Severe warnings are always enabled, unless they are explicitly disabled
with the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-X> switch.
Trappable errors may be trapped using the eval operator. See
(F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long).
-=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element
+=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine
-(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element, such as:
+(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element or a
+subroutine with an ampersand, such as:
$foo{$bar}
$ref->{"susie"}[12]
+ &do_something
=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice
literals or global values as arguments to the "p" pack() template to
avoid this warning.
+=item Attempt to reload %s aborted.
+
+(F) You tried to load a file with C<use> or C<require> that failed to
+compile once already. Perl will not try to compile this file again
+unless you delete its entry from %INC. See L<perlfunc/require> and
+L<perlvar/%INC>.
+
=item Attempt to set length of freed array
(W) You tried to set the length of an array which has been freed. You
triggers Perl to autovivify that typeglob, but it there is no legal conversion
from that type of reference to a typeglob.
+=item Cannot copy to %s in %s
+
+(P) Perl detected an attempt to copy a value to an internal type that cannot
+be directly assigned not.
+
=item Can only compress unsigned integers in pack
(F) An argument to pack("w",...) was not an integer. The BER compressed
=item Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s"
(F) Currently, only scalar variables can be declared with a specific
-class qualifier in a "my" or "our" declaration. The semantics may be
+class qualifier in a "my", "our" or "state" declaration. The semantics may be
extended for other types of variables in future.
=item Can't declare %s in "%s"
-(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as "my" or
-"our" variables. They must have ordinary identifiers as names.
+(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 do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file
inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See
L<perlfunc/last>.
+=item Can't linearize anonymous symbol table
+
+(F) Perl tried to calculate the method resolution order (MRO) of a
+package, but failed because the package stash has no name.
+
=item Can't load '%s' for module %s
(F) The module you tried to load failed to load a dynamic extension. This
=item Can't localize lexical variable %s
(F) You used local on a variable name that was previously declared as a
-lexical variable using "my". This is not allowed. If you want to
+lexical variable using "my" or "state". This is not allowed. If you want to
localize a package variable of the same name, qualify it with the
package name.
(W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that
doesn't seem to exist.
+=item Can't locate package %s for the parents of %s
+
+(W syntax) You did not define (or require/use) the first package,
+which is named as a (possibly indirect) parent of the second by
+C<@ISA> inheritance. Perl will treat this as if the undefined
+package had an empty C<@ISA>.
+
=item Can't locate PerlIO%s
(F) You tried to use in open() a PerlIO layer that does not exist,
(F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a
foreach.
-=item Can't use global %s in "my"
+=item Can't use global %s in "%s"
(F) You tried to declare a magical variable as a lexical variable. This
is not allowed, because the magic can be tied to only one location
(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement fcntl(). What is this, a
PDP-11 or something?
+=item FETCHSIZE returned a negative value
+
+(F) A tied array claimed to have a negative number of elements, which
+is not possible.
+
=item Field too wide in 'u' format in pack
(W pack) Each line in an uuencoded string start with a length indicator
=item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name
-(F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables
-must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), declared beforehand using
-"our", or explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable
-is in (using "::").
+(F) You've said "use strict" or "use strict vars", which indicates
+that all variables must either be lexically scoped (using "my" or "state"),
+declared beforehand using "our", or explicitly qualified to say
+which package the global variable is in (using "::").
=item glob failed (%s)
=item Ignoring %s in character class in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-(W) Named unicode character escapes (\N{...}) may return multi-char
+(W) Named Unicode character escapes (\N{...}) may return multi-char
or zero length sequences. When such an escape is used in a character class
its behaviour is not well defined. Check that the correct escape has
been used, and the correct charname handler is in scope.
=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s
(X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the
-following switches: B<-[CDIMUdmtwA]>.
+following switches: B<-[CDIMUdmtw]>.
=item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s"
didn't see the expected delimiter between key and value, so the line was
ignored.
-=item Impossible to activate assertion call
-
-(W assertions) You're calling an assertion function in a block that is
-not under the control of the C<assertions> pragma.
-
=item (in cleanup) %s
(W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised
Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could
also result in this warning. See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>.
+=item Inconsistent hierarchy during C3 merge of class '%s': merging failed on parent '%s'
+
+(F) The method resolution order (MRO) of the given class is not
+C3-consistent, and you have enabled the C3 MRO for this class. See the C3
+documentation in L<mro> for more information.
+
=item In EBCDIC the v-string components cannot exceed 2147483647
(F) An error peculiar to EBCDIC. Internally, v-strings are stored as
The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was
discovered.
+=item Initialization of state variables in list context currently forbidden
+
+(F) Currently the implementation of "state" only permits the initialization
+of scalar variables in scalar context. Re-write C<state ($a) = 42> as
+C<state $a = 42> to change from list to scalar context. Constructions such
+as C<state (@a) = foo()> will be supported in a future perl release.
+
=item Insecure dependency in %s
(F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like.
The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the
escape was discovered.
+=item Invalid mro name: '%s'
+
+(F) You tried to C<mro::set_mro("classname", "foo")>
+or C<use mro 'foo'>, where C<foo> is not a valid method resolution order (MRO).
+(Currently, the only valid ones are C<dfs> and C<c3>). See L<mro>.
+
=item Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character
=item $* is no longer supported
-(D deprecated) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older perls, has
+(S deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older perls, has
been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. You should use the
C<//m> and C<//s> regexp modifiers instead.
=item $# is no longer supported
-(D deprecated) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older perls, has
+(S deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older perls, has
been removed as of 5.9.3 and is no longer supported. You should use the
printf/sprintf functions instead.
(F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can
handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release.
+=item Lost precision when %s %f by 1
+
+(W) The value you attempted to increment or decrement by one is too large
+for the underlying floating point representation to store accurately,
+hence the target of C<++> or C<--> is unchanged. Perl issues this warning
+because it has already switched from integers to floating point when values
+are too large for integers, and now even floating point is insufficient.
+You may wish to switch to using L<Math::BigInt> explicitly.
+
=item lstat() on filehandle %s
(W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean
=item Malformed UTF-8 character (%s)
-(S utf8) (F) Perl detected something that didn't comply with UTF-8
-encoding rules.
+(S utf8) (F) Perl detected a string that didn't comply with UTF-8
+encoding rules, even though it had the UTF8 flag on.
+
+One possible cause is that you set the UTF8 flag yourself for data that
+you thought to be in UTF-8 but it wasn't (it was for example legacy
+8-bit data). To guard against this, you can use Encode::decode_utf8.
+
+If you use the C<:encoding(UTF-8)> PerlIO layer for input, invalid byte
+sequences are handled gracefully, but if you use C<:utf8>, the flag is
+set without validating the data, possibly resulting in this error
+message.
-One possible cause is that you read in data that you thought to be in
-UTF-8 but it wasn't (it was for example legacy 8-bit data). Another
-possibility is careless use of utf8::upgrade().
+See also L<Encode/"Handling Malformed Data">.
=item Malformed UTF-16 surrogate
(F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try
that yet.
-=item "my" variable %s can't be in a package
+=item "%s" 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
(S internal) The symbol in question was declared but somehow went out of
scope before it could possibly have been used.
+=item next::method/next::can/maybe::next::method cannot find enclosing method
+
+(F) C<next::method> needs to be called within the context of a
+real method in a real package, and it could not find such a context.
+See L<mro>.
+
=item No %s allowed while running setuid
(F) Certain operations are deemed to be too insecure for a setuid or
(F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a well-formed #! line
even on machines that don't support the #! construct.
+=item No next::method '%s' found for %s
+
+(F) C<next::method> found no further instances of this method name
+in the remaining packages of the MRO of this class. If you don't want
+it throwing an exception, use C<maybe::next::method>
+or C<next::can>. See L<mro>.
+
=item "no" not allowed in expression
(F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and
=item No such class %s
-(F) You provided a class qualifier in a "my" or "our" declaration, but
+(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 pipe open
(S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up.
+=item Opening dirhandle %s also as a file
+
+(W io deprecated) You used open() to associate a filehandle to
+a symbol (glob or scalar) that already holds a dirhandle.
+Although legal, this idiom might render your code confusing
+and is deprecated.
+
+=item Opening filehandle %s also as a directory
+
+(W io deprecated) You used opendir() to associate a dirhandle to
+a symbol (glob or scalar) that already holds a filehandle.
+Although legal, this idiom might render your code confusing
+and is deprecated.
+
=item Operation "%s": no method found, %s
(F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no
(P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number.
+=item panic: sv_chop %s
+
+(P) The sv_chop() routine was passed a position that is not within the
+scalar's string buffer.
+
=item panic: sv_insert
(P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there
my ($foo, $bar) = @_;
-Remember that "my", "our", and "local" bind tighter than comma.
+Remember that "my", "our", "local" and "state" bind tighter than comma.
=item C<-p> destination: %s
(F) The unpack format P must have an explicit size, not "*".
-=item B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script
-
-(F) The script would have to be opened by the C preprocessor by name,
-which provides a race condition that breaks security.
-
=item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown. The <-- HERE
literal @foo, then write it as \@foo; otherwise find out what happened
to the array you apparently lost track of.
+=item Possible unintended interpolation of $\ in regex
+
+(W ambiguous) You said something like C<m/$\/> in a regex.
+The regex C<m/foo$\s+bar/m> translates to: match the word 'foo', the output
+record separartor (see L<perlvar/$\>) and the letter 's' (one time or more)
+followed by the word 'bar'.
+
+If this is what you intended then you can silence the warning by using
+C<m/${\}/> (for example: C<m/foo${\}s+bar/>).
+
+If instead you intended to match the word 'foo' at the end of the line
+followed by whitespace and the word 'bar' on the next line then you can use
+C<m/$(?)\/> (for example: C<m/foo$(?)\s+bar/>).
+
=item pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead
(D deprecated) You have written something like this:
L<perlipc/"Signals">. See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT"
in L<perlos2>.
+=item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s
+
+(W syntax) 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
(S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been
=item Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s'
-(F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used. Probably indicates
-an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy.
+(F) While calculating the method resolution order (MRO) of a package, Perl
+believes it found an infinite loop in the C<@ISA> hierarchy. This is a
+crude check that bails out after 100 levels of C<@ISA> depth.
=item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method %s
(W internal) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with
a reference count of other than 1.
+=item Reference to invalid group 0
+
+(F) You used C<\g0> or similar in a regular expression. You may refer to
+capturing parentheses only with strictly positive integers (normal
+backreferences) or with strictly negative integers (relative
+backreferences), but using 0 does not make sense.
+
=item Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) You used something like C<\7> in your regular expression, but there are
iterate more times than there are characters of input, which is what
happened.) See L<perlfunc/split>.
-=item State variable %s will be reinitialized
-
-(W misc) You're declaring a C<state> variable inside a list. The list
-assignment will be treated by perl as a regular assignment, which means
-that the C<state> variable will be reinitialized each time the statement
-is run. The solution to have it initialized only once is to write the
-assignment on its own line, as in:
-
- state $var = 42;
-
=item Statement unlikely to be reached
(W exec) You did an exec() with some statement after it other than a
somehow, or insert an underbar into it. You might also declare it as a
subroutine.
-=item Unrecognized character %s
+=item Unrecognized character %s in column %d
(F) The Perl parser has no idea what to do with the specified character
-in your Perl script (or eval). Perhaps you tried to run a compressed
-script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
+in your Perl script (or eval) at the specified column. Perhaps you tried
+to run a compressed script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
=item Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
If you really do mean it, explicitly numify your reference, like so:
C<$array[0+$ref]>. This warning is not given for overloaded objects,
either, because you can overload the numification and stringification
-operators and then you assumedly know what you are doing.
+operators and then you assumably know what you are doing.
=item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated
=item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s
-(W misc) A "my" or "our" variable has been redeclared in the current
+(W misc) A "my", "our" or "state" variable has been redeclared in the current
scope or statement, effectively eliminating all access to the previous
instance. This is almost always a typographical error. Note that the
earlier variable will still exist until the end of the scope or until
(W misc) The version string contains invalid characters at the end, which
are being ignored.
-=item v-string in use/require is non-portable
-
-(W portable) The use of v-strings is non-portable to older, pre-5.6, Perls.
-If you want your scripts to be backward portable, use the floating
-point version number: for example, instead of C<use 5.6.1> say
-C<use 5.006_001>. This of course won't help: the older Perls
-won't suddenly start understanding newer features, but at least
-they will show a sensible error message indicating the required
-minimum version.
-
=item Warning: something's wrong
(W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or
-you called it with no args and C<$_> was empty.
+you called it with no args and C<$@> was empty.
=item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly
=back
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<warnings>, L<perllexwarn>.
+
=cut
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