Typo correction in perldebguts.pod

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index ff8e0a7..838b545 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1294,6 +1294,10 @@ Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call a method named
 "elseif" for the class returned by the following block.  This is
 unlikely to be what you want.
 
+=item Empty %s
+
+(F) Empty C<\p{}> or C<\P{}>.
+
 =item entering effective %s failed
 
 (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and
@@ -1696,7 +1700,6 @@ operations.
 The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was
 discovered.
 
-
 =item Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks
 
 (S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl keeps track of the number of times
@@ -1712,7 +1715,6 @@ terminate the Perl script and execute the specified command.
 <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was
 discovered.
 
-
 =item %s (...) interpreted as function
 
 (W syntax) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator
@@ -1853,7 +1855,6 @@ shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered.
     prefix1;prefix2
 
 or
-
     prefix1 prefix2
 
 with nonempty prefix1 and prefix2.  If C<prefix1> is indeed a prefix of
@@ -1943,6 +1944,10 @@ can vary from one line to the next.
 (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s
 found where operator expected".  Often the missing operator is a comma.
 
+=item Missing right brace on %s
+
+(F) Missing right brace in C<\p{...}> or C<\P{...}>.
+
 =item Missing right curly or square bracket
 
 (F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than closing
@@ -2312,7 +2317,7 @@ supplied it an uninitialized value.  See L<perlform>.
 =item Number too long
 
 (F) Perl limits the representation of decimal numbers in programs to
-about about 250 characters.  You've exceeded that length.  Future
+about 250 characters.  You've exceeded that length.  Future
 versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation.  In
 the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of
 "1_000_000").
@@ -2797,6 +2802,13 @@ Perl guesses a reasonable buffer size, but puts a sentinel byte at the
 end of the buffer just in case.  This sentinel byte got clobbered, and
 Perl assumes that memory is now corrupted.  See L<perlfunc/ioctl>.
 
+=item Possible unintended interpolation of %s in 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.
+
 =item Possible Y2K bug: %s
 
 (W y2k) You are concatenating the number 19 with another number, which
@@ -3844,6 +3856,21 @@ returns no useful value.  See L<perlmod>.
 (D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted form
 if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document.
 
+=item Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the shorter *glob{IO} form
+to access the filehandle slot within a typeglob.
+
+=item Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() deprecated
+
+(D deprecated) chdir() with no arguments is documented to change to
+$ENV{HOME} or $ENV{LOGDIR}.  chdir(undef) and chdir('') share this
+behavior, but that has been deprecated.  In future versions they
+will simply fail.
+
+Be careful to check that what you pass to chdir() is defined and not
+blank, else you might find yourself in your home directory.
+
 =item Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated
 
 (D deprecated) It makes a lot of work for the compiler when you clobber
@@ -4046,6 +4073,16 @@ where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.
 its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with
 the version number.
 
+=item v-string in use/require is non-portable
+
+(W) 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