=item %s argument is not a HASH element
-(F) The argument to delete() or exists() must be a hash element, such as
+(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash element, such as
$foo{$bar}
$ref->[12]->{"susie"}
+=item %s argument is not a HASH element or slice
+
+(F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash element, such as
+
+ $foo{$bar}
+ $ref->[12]->{"susie"}
+
+or a hash slice, such as
+
+ @foo{$bar, $baz, $xyzzy}
+ @{$ref->[12]}{"susie", "queue"}
+
=item %s did not return a true value
(F) A required (or used) file must return a true value to indicate that
(F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl(), semctl() or
shmctl(). In C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively,
-S<sizeof(struct msqid_ds *)>, S<sizeof(struct semid_ds *)> and
+S<sizeof(struct msqid_ds *)>, S<sizeof(struct semid_ds *)>, and
S<sizeof(struct shmid_ds *)>.
=item Bad associative array
=item Can't declare %s in my
-(F) Only scalar, array and hash variables may be declared as lexical variables.
+(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as lexical variables.
They must have ordinary identifiers as names.
=item Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s
=item Can't exec "%s": %s
-(W) An system(), exec() or piped open call could not execute the named
+(W) An system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the named
program for the indicated reason. Typical reasons include: the permissions
were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in C<$ENV{PATH}>, the
executable in question was compiled for another architecture, or the
(W) You tried to say C<open(CMD, "|cmd|")>, which is not supported. You can
try any of several modules in the Perl library to do this, such as
-"open2.pl". Alternately, direct the pipe's output to a file using "E<gt>",
+IPC::Open2. Alternately, direct the pipe's output to a file using "E<gt>",
and then read it in under a different file handle.
=item Can't open error file %s as stderr
(W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or @hash{@keys}.
On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got carried away.
+=item Died.
+
+(F) You passed die() an empty string (the equivalent of C<die "">) or
+you called it with no args and both C<$@> and C<$_> were empty.
+
=item Do you need to pre-declare %s?
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s
(F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So
things like ** or +* or ?* are illegal.
-Note, however, that the minimal matching quantifiers, *?, +? and ?? appear
+Note, however, that the minimal matching quantifiers, C<*?>, C<+?>, and C<??> appear
to be nested quantifiers, but aren't. See L<perlre>.
=item No #! line
=item System V IPC is not implemented on this machine
-(F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", "shm"
+(F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", "shm",
or "msg". See L<perlfunc/semctl>, for example.
=item Syswrite on closed filehandle
of Perl. Check the E<lt>#!E<gt> line, or manually feed your script
into Perl yourself.
+=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.
+
=item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly.
(S) The implicit close() done by an open() got an error indication on the
=item Got an error from DosAllocMem:
(P) An error peculiar to OS/2. Most probably you use an obsolete version
-of perl, and should not happen anyway.
+of perl, and this should not happen anyway.
=item Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX
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