=over 4
+=item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s
+
+(W) A "my" or "our" 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 all closure referents to it are
+destroyed.
+
=item "my sub" not yet implemented
(F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try that
to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use local()
if you want to localize a package variable.
-=item "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s
-
-(W) A lexical 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 all closure referents to it are
-destroyed.
-
=item "no" not allowed in expression
(F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and returns
no useful value. See L<perlmod>.
+=item "our" variable %s redeclared
+
+(W) You seem to have already declared the same global once before in the
+current lexical scope.
+
=item "use" not allowed in expression
(F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and returns
(F) The '!' is allowed in pack() and unpack() only after certain types.
See L<perlfunc/pack>.
-=item # cannot take a count
+=item / cannot take a count
(F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string,
but you have also specified an explicit size for the string.
See L<perlfunc/pack>.
-=item # must be followed by a, A or Z
+=item / must be followed by a, A or Z
(F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string,
which must be followed by one of the letters a, A or Z
to indicate what sort of string is to be unpacked.
See L<perlfunc/pack>.
-=item # must be followed by a*, A* or Z*
+=item / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*
-(F) You had an pack template indicating a counted-length string,
+(F) You had a pack template indicating a counted-length string,
Currently the only things that can have their length counted are a*, A* or Z*.
See L<perlfunc/pack>.
-=item # must follow a numeric type
+=item / must follow a numeric type
(F) You had an unpack template that contained a '#',
but this did not follow some numeric unpack specification.
(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
by Perl. This combination appears in an interpolated variable or a
-C<'>-delimited regular expression.
+C<'>-delimited regular expression. The character was understood literally.
+
+=item /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through
+
+(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
+by Perl inside character classes. The character was understood literally.
=item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s"
(W) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string,
-like in the first argument to C<join>. Perl will treat the true
+as in the first argument to C<join>. Perl will treat the true
or false result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string,
which is probably not what you had in mind.
if you are certain that you're calling the function correctly, you may put
an ampersand before the name to avoid the warning. See L<perlsub>.
-=item %s argument is not a HASH element
+=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element
-(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash element, such as
+(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element, such as:
$foo{$bar}
- $ref->[12]->{"susie"}
+ $ref->[12]->["susie"]
-=item %s argument is not a HASH element or slice
+=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice
-(F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash element, such as
+(F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash or array element, such as:
$foo{$bar}
- $ref->[12]->{"susie"}
+ $ref->[12]->["susie"]
-or a hash slice, such as
+or a hash or array slice, such as:
- @foo{$bar, $baz, $xyzzy}
+ @foo[$bar, $baz, $xyzzy]
@{$ref->[12]}{"susie", "queue"}
+=item %s argument is not a subroutine name
+
+(F) The argument to exists() for C<exists &sub> must be a subroutine
+name, and not a subroutine call. C<exists &sub()> will generate this error.
+
=item %s did not return a true value
(F) A required (or used) file must return a true value to indicate that
(F) You wrote C<require E<lt>fileE<gt>> when you should have written
C<require 'file'>.
-=item accept() on closed fd
+=item accept() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to do an accept on a closed socket. Did you forget to check
the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/accept>.
$var = 'myvar';
$sym = "mypack::$var";
+=item Bad realloc() ignored
+
+(S) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had never been
+malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by
+setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 1.
+
=item Bad symbol for array
(P) An internal request asked to add an array entry to something that
(4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See
L<perlport> for more on portability concerns.
-=item bind() on closed fd
+=item bind() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket. Did you forget to check
the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/bind>.
(F) A subroutine invoked from an external package via perl_call_sv()
exited by calling exit.
-=item Can't "goto" outside a block
+=item Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block
(F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump out of what might look
like a block, except that it isn't a proper block. This usually
(F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump into the middle of a
foreach loop. You can't get there from here. See L<perlfunc/goto>.
-=item Can't "last" outside a block
+=item Can't "last" outside a loop block
(F) A "last" statement was executed to break out of the current block,
except that there's this itty bitty problem called there isn't a
current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't count as a
-"loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(). You can usually double
-the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner curlies
-will be considered a block that loops once. See L<perlfunc/last>.
+"loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or grep().
+You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect though,
+because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once.
+See L<perlfunc/last>.
-=item Can't "next" outside a block
+=item Can't "next" outside a loop block
(F) A "next" statement was executed to reiterate the current block, but
there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't
-count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(). You can
-usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner
-curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See L<perlfunc/next>.
+count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map()
+or grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect
+though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that
+loops once. See L<perlfunc/next>.
=item Can't read CRTL environ
missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ
or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not searched.
-=item Can't "redo" outside a block
+=item Can't "redo" outside a loop block
(F) A "redo" statement was executed to restart the current block, but
there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't
-count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(). You can
-usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner
-curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See L<perlfunc/redo>.
+count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map()
+or grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect
+though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that
+loops once. See L<perlfunc/redo>.
=item Can't bless non-reference value
(F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory
that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist.
-=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s"
+=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid
(P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for nosuid.
(P) An error peculiar to VMS. The process is suffering from exhausted quotas
or other plumbing problems.
-=item Can't declare %s in my
+=item Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s"
-(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as lexical variables.
-They must have ordinary identifiers as names.
+(S) Currently, only scalar variables can declared with a specific class
+qualifier in a "my" or "our" 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.
=item Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s
(F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval "string".
(You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you probably don't want to.)
+=item Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default
+
+(W) Perl has detected that it is being run with the SIGCHLD signal
+(sometimes known as SIGCLD) disabled. Since disabling this signal
+will interfere with proper determination of exit status of child
+processes, Perl has reset the signal to its default value.
+This situation typically indicates that the parent program under
+which Perl may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless.
+
=item Can't localize through a reference
(F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently
=item Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call
-(F) Subroutines used in lvalue context should be marked as such, see
-L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">.
+(F) Subroutines meant to be used in lvalue context should be declared as
+such, see L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">.
=item Can't modify nonexistent substring
reference of the type needed. You can use the ref() function to
test the type of the reference, if need be.
-=item Can't use \1 to mean $1 in expression
+=item Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression
(W) In an ordinary expression, backslash is a unary operator that creates
a reference to its argument. The use of backslash to indicate a backreference
Trying to do this in ordinary Perl code produces a value that prints
out looking like SCALAR(0xdecaf). Use the $1 form instead.
-=item Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while \"strict refs\" in use
+=item Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use
(F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic references
are disallowed. See L<perlref>.
=item Character class [:%s:] unknown
(F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown.
+See L<perlre>.
=item Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes
(W) The character class constructs [: :], [= =], and [. .] go
I<inside> character classes, the [] are part of the construct,
-for example: /[012[:alpha:]345]/. Note that the last two constructs
-are not currently implemented, they are placeholders for future extensions.
+for example: /[012[:alpha:]345]/. Note that [= =] and [. .]
+are not currently implemented; they are simply placeholders for
+future extensions.
=item Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions
expression so that it is simpler or backtracks less. (See L<perlbook>
for information on I<Mastering Regular Expressions>.)
-=item connect() on closed fd
+=item connect() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket. Did you forget to check
the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/connect>.
=item Constant subroutine %s redefined
-(S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for
+(S|W) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for
inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and
workarounds.
=item Constant subroutine %s undefined
-(S) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for
+(W) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for
inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and
workarounds.
(W) You probably referred to an imported subroutine &FOO as $FOO or some such.
+=item Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?
+
+(W) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global variable.
+You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which seems superfluous.
+
=item Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?
(W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or @hash{@keys}.
named "elseif" for the class returned by the following block. This is
unlikely to be what you want.
-=item END failed--cleanup aborted
+=item %s failed--call queue aborted
-(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing an END subroutine.
-The interpreter is immediately exited.
+(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a CHECK, INIT, or
+END subroutine. Processing of the remainder of the queue of such
+routines has been prematurely ended.
=item entering effective %s failed
usually not what you want. Consider providing a default target
package, e.g. bless($ref, $p || 'MyPackage');
+=item false [] range "%s" in regexp
+
+(W) A character class range must start and end at a literal character, not
+another character class like C<\d> or C<[:alpha:]>. The "-" in your false
+range is interpreted as a literal "-". Consider quoting the "-", "\-".
+See L<perlre>.
+
=item Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d
(P) An error peculiar to VMS. Something untoward happened in a VMS system
=item Filehandle %s opened only for output
(W) You tried to read from a filehandle opened only for writing. If you
-intended it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with
+intended it to be a read/write filehandle, you needed to open it with
"+E<lt>" or "+E<gt>" or "+E<gt>E<gt>" instead of with "E<lt>" or nothing. If
you intended only to read from the file, use "E<lt>". See
L<perlfunc/open>.
that happens to be missing. So you have to put either the backslash or
the name.
+=item flock() on closed filehandle %s
+
+(W) The filehandle you're attempting to flock() got itself closed some
+time before now. Check your logic flow. flock() operates on filehandles.
+Are you attempting to call flock() on a dirhandle by the same name?
+
=item Format %s redefined
(W) You redefined a format. To suppress this warning, say
because if it did, it'd feel morally obligated to return every hostname
on the Internet.
-=item get{sock,peer}name() on closed fd
+=item get%sname() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to get a socket or peer socket name on a closed socket.
Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call?
=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"), or explicitly qualified to
-say which package the global variable is in (using "::").
+must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), declared beforehand using
+"our", or explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable
+is in (using "::").
=item goto must have label
=item Illegal binary digit %s
-(F) You used a digit other than 0 and 1 in a binary number.
+(F) You used a digit other than 0 or 1 in a binary number.
=item Illegal octal digit %s
=item Integer overflow in %s number
(W) The hexadecimal, octal or binary number you have specified either
-as a literal in your code or as a scalar is too big for your
+as a literal or as an argument to hex() or oct() is too big for your
architecture, and has been converted to a floating point number. On a
32-bit architecture the largest hexadecimal, octal or binary number
representable without overflow is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or
The indicated attributes for a subroutine or variable were not recognized
by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>.
-=item invalid [] range in regexp
+=item invalid [] range "%s" in regexp
(F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character
-greater than the maximum character, or the range didn't start/end with
-a literal character. See L<perlre>.
+greater than the maximum character. See L<perlre>.
=item Invalid conversion in %s: "%s"
=item Invalid separator character %s in attribute list
-(F) Something other than a comma or whitespace was seen between the
+(F) Something other than a colon or whitespace was seen between the
elements of an attribute list. If the previous attribute
had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that list was terminated
too soon. See L<attributes>.
(F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and
effective uids or gids failed.
-=item listen() on closed fd
+=item listen() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket. Did you forget to check
the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/listen>.
(W) 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<use vars> pragma is
-provided for just this purpose.
+it again somehow to suppress the message. The C<our> declaration is
+provided for this purpose.
=item Negative length
(F) A setuid script can't be specified by the user.
+=item No %s specified for -%c
+
+(F) The indicated command line switch needs a mandatory argument, but
+you haven't specified one.
+
=item No comma allowed after %s
(F) A list operator that has a filehandle or "indirect object" is not
and found a 'E<gt>' or a 'E<gt>E<gt>' on the command line, but can't find the
name of the file to which to write data destined for stdout.
+=item No package name allowed for variable %s in "our"
+
+(F) Fully qualified variable names are not allowed in "our" declarations,
+because that doesn't make much sense under existing semantics. Such
+syntax is reserved for future extensions.
+
=item No Perl script found in input
(F) You called C<perl -x>, but no line was found in the file beginning
(F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setreuid() call for
your system.
-=item No space allowed after B<-I>
+=item No space allowed after -%c
-(F) The argument to B<-I> must follow the B<-I> immediately with no
-intervening space.
+(F) The argument to the indicated command line switch must follow immediately
+after the switch, without intervening spaces.
-=item No such array field
+=item No such pseudo-hash field "%s"
(F) You tried to access an array as a hash, but the field name used is
not defined. The hash at index 0 should map all valid field names to
array indices for that to work.
-=item No such field "%s" in variable %s of type %s
+=item No such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of type %s
(F) You tried to access a field of a typed variable where the type
does not know about the field name. The field names are looked up in
=item Odd number of elements in hash assignment
-(S) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, which
+(W) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, which
is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs.
=item Offset outside string
For example, if you say "*foo *foo" it will be interpreted as
if you said "*foo * 'foo'".
+=item Out of memory!
+
+(X) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient
+remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. Perl
+has no option but to exit immediately.
+
=item Out of memory for yacc stack
(F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue parsing,
(P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier.
+=item panic: %s
+
+(P) An internal error.
+
=item Parentheses missing around "%s" list
(W) You said something like
my ($foo, $bar) = @_;
-Remember that "my" and "local" bind closer than comma.
+Remember that "my", "our" and "local" bind closer than comma.
=item Perl %3.3f required--this is only version %s, stopped
=item POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument
-(F) Your C compiler uses POSIX getpgrp(), which takes no argument, unlike
+(F) Your system has POSIX getpgrp(), which takes no argument, unlike
the BSD version, which takes a pid.
+=item Possible Y2K bug: %s
+
+(W) You are concatenating the number 19 with another number, which
+could be a potential Year 2000 problem.
+
=item Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list
(W) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal
See Server error.
-=item print on closed filehandle %s
+=item print() on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're printing on got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
-=item printf on closed filehandle %s
+=item printf() on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string
increment by prepending "0" to your numbers.
-=item Read on closed filehandle %s
+=item readline() on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
+=item realloc() of freed memory ignored
+
+(S) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had already
+been freed.
+
=item Reallocation too large: %lx
(F) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine.
(W) A nearby syntax error was probably caused by a missing semicolon,
or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma.
-=item Send on closed socket
+=item send() on closed socket %s
-(W) The filehandle you're sending to got itself closed sometime before now.
+(W) The socket you're sending to got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
=item Sequence (? incomplete
the seteuid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure didn't
think so.
+=item setpgrp can't take arguments
+
+(F) Your system has the setpgrp() from BSD 4.2, which takes no arguments,
+unlike POSIX setpgid(), which takes a process ID and process group ID.
+
=item setrgid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to C<$(>, and your operating system doesn't support
(F) You don't have System V shared memory IPC on your system.
-=item shutdown() on closed fd
+=item shutdown() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket. Seems a bit superfluous.
machine. In some machines the functionality can exist but be
unconfigured. Consult your system support.
-=item Syswrite on closed filehandle
+=item syswrite() on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer already went past
the symlink to get to the real file. Use an actual filename instead.
-=item This Perl can't reset CRTL eviron elements (%s)
+=item This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s)
=item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s)
=item Unknown open() mode '%s'
-(F) The second argument of 3-arguments open is not one from the list
-of C<L<lt>>, C<L<gt>>, C<E<gt>E<gt>>, C<+L<lt>>, C<+L<gt>>,
-C<+E<gt>E<gt>>, C<-|>, C<|-> of possible open() modes.
+(F) The second argument of 3-argument open() is not among the list
+of valid modes: C<L<lt>>, C<L<gt>>, C<E<gt>E<gt>>, C<+L<lt>>,
+C<+L<gt>>, C<+E<gt>E<gt>>, C<-|>, C<|->.
=item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s
because there's a better way to do it, and also because the old way has
bad side effects.
-=item Use of uninitialized value
+=item Use of uninitialized value%s
(W) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was
interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this
of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into
Perl yourself.
+=item Version number must be a constant number
+
+(P) The attempt to translate a C<use Module n.n LIST> statement into
+its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with
+the version number.
+
=item perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
(S) The whole warning message will look something like:
So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
-=item Write on closed filehandle %s
+=item write() on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
will try to call the subroutine when the assignment is executed, which is
probably not what you want. (If it IS what you want, put an & in front.)
-=item [gs]etsockopt() on closed fd
+=item %cetsockopt() on closed socket %s
(W) You tried to get or set a socket option on a closed socket.
Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call?
-See L<perlfunc/getsockopt>.
+See L<perlfunc/getsockopt> and L<perlfunc/setsockopt>.
=item \1 better written as $1
=back
+=cut
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