From: Ronald J. Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:26:08 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Re: [ID 20001130.011] expression parsing bug ?
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=510c8d02ebaa9b180f33ea0895bf85ec8473792d;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

Re: [ID 20001130.011] expression parsing bug ?
Message-ID: <20001201162608.B1436@linguist.dartmouth.edu>

Reword the diagnostic message.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7949
---

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 877961d..830faab 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ See L<perlfunc/pack>.
 
 =item Ambiguous -%c() resolved as a file test
 
-(W ambiguous) A subroutine you used has the same name as a Perl file
-test (C<r w x o R W X O e z s f d l p S u g k b c t T B M A C>), and
-you used a "-" right in front a call to that subroutine, which made it
-really look like a file test.  Use either an extra space after the
-"-", C<- f(...)>, or an extra set of parentheses, C<-(f(...))>, to
-disambiguate it as a subroutine call, or an extra space after the
-operator name C<-f (...)>, or remove the parentheses, C<-f ...>, to
-disambiguate it as a file test.
+(W ambiguous) You used a "-" right in front a call to a subroutine
+that has the same name as a Perl file test (C<r w x o R W X O e z s
+f d l p S u g k b c t T B M A C>).
+
+To disambiguate it as a subroutine call, use either an extra space after
+the "-", C<- f(...)>, or an extra set of parentheses, C<-(f(...))>.
+To disambiguate it as a file test, use an extra space after the operator
+name C<-f (...)>, or add the space and remove the parentheses, C<-f ...>.
 
 =item Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &