From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 03:40:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: better diagnostic for do{} used as lvalue
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=638bc1181648408738bc0f85920fa60225c46a73;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git

better diagnostic for do{} used as lvalue

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1808
---

diff --git a/op.c b/op.c
index 5b06f6f..58cf511 100644
--- a/op.c
+++ b/op.c
@@ -1135,7 +1135,8 @@ mod(OP *o, I32 type)
 	if (type == OP_GREPSTART || type == OP_ENTERSUB || type == OP_REFGEN)
 	    break;
 	yyerror(form("Can't modify %s in %s",
-		     op_desc[o->op_type],
+		     (o->op_type == OP_NULL && (o->op_flags & OPf_SPECIAL)
+		      ? "do block" : op_desc[o->op_type]),
 		     type ? op_desc[type] : "local"));
 	return o;
 
@@ -1264,7 +1265,9 @@ mod(OP *o, I32 type)
 	break;
 
     case OP_NULL:
-	if (!(o->op_flags & OPf_KIDS))
+	if (o->op_flags & OPf_SPECIAL)		/* do BLOCK */
+	    goto nomod;
+	else if (!(o->op_flags & OPf_KIDS))
 	    break;
 	if (o->op_targ != OP_LIST) {
 	    mod(cBINOPo->op_first, type);
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 79ca767..0b9d054 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ should be considered a perpetual work in progress
 
 =head2 Newlines
 
-In most operating systems, lines in files are separated with newlines.
+In most operating systems, lines in files are terminated by newlines.
 Just what is used as a newline may vary from OS to OS.  Unix
 traditionally uses C<\012>, one kind of Windows I/O uses C<\015\012>,
 and S<Mac OS> uses C<\015>.