From: Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:54:50 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perldiag.pod
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perldiag.pod
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       (Moved to the right place.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12119
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index ff8e0a7..94c6526 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1696,7 +1696,6 @@ 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 +1711,6 @@ 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 +1851,6 @@ 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
@@ -2797,6 +2794,13 @@ 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
+literally to say `@foo' then backslash it: `\@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