From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:03:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change the push/unshift warning (#9532) to talk about "no values"
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Change the push/unshift warning (#9532) to talk about "no values"
instead of "no arguments".

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9534
---

diff --git a/op.c b/op.c
index 44a19d3..4f95857 100644
--- a/op.c
+++ b/op.c
@@ -5682,7 +5682,7 @@ Perl_ck_fun(pTHX_ OP *o)
 		if ((type == OP_PUSH || type == OP_UNSHIFT)
 		    && !kid->op_sibling && ckWARN(WARN_MISC))
 		    Perl_warner(aTHX_ WARN_MISC,
-			"Useless use of %s with no arguments",
+			"Useless use of %s with no values",
 			PL_op_desc[type]);
 		    
 		if (kid->op_type == OP_CONST &&
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 16b4ec2..038b93f 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -3682,6 +3682,15 @@ L<perlref> for more on this.
 
 (W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments.   That isn't very useful.
 
+=item Useless use of %s with no values
+
+(W misc) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments
+apart from the array, like C<push(@x)> or C<unshift(@foo)>. That won't
+usually have any effect on the array, so is completely useless. It's
+possible in principle that push(@tied_array) could have some effect
+if the array is tied to a class which implements a PUSH method. If so,
+you can write it as C<push(@tied_array,())> to avoid this warning.
+
 =item "use" not allowed in expression
 
 (F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and
@@ -3949,15 +3958,6 @@ which means that Perl 5 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 Useless use of %s with no arguments
-
-(W misc) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments
-apart from the array, like C<push(@x)> or C<unshift(@foo)>. That won't
-usually have any effect on the array, so is completely useless. It's
-possible in principle that push(@tied_array) could have some effect
-if the array is tied to a class which implements a PUSH method. If so,
-you can write it as C<push(@tied_array,())> to avoid this warning.
-
 =back
 
 =cut
diff --git a/t/pragma/warn/op b/t/pragma/warn/op
index ab2124e..62268fc 100644
--- a/t/pragma/warn/op
+++ b/t/pragma/warn/op
@@ -894,5 +894,5 @@ no warnings 'misc' ;
 push(@x);
 unshift(@x);
 EXPECT
-Useless use of push with no arguments at - line 4.
-Useless use of unshift with no arguments at - line 5.
+Useless use of push with no values at - line 4.
+Useless use of unshift with no values at - line 5.