Your message dated Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:19:46 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#201539: perl -w does not warn about use of defined(@array) has caused the Debian Bug report #201539, regarding defined(@array) warning isn't triggered for globals to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: perl Version: 5.8.0-18 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Perl should warn about the deprecated usage of this: @i=(); if(defined(@i)) { print "foo\n"; } The usage of "defined(@i)" is deprecated and in its current form unintuitive. Perl should omit a warning message similar to "usage of defined(@array) is deprecated and may not do what you expect -- see \"perldoc -f defined\" for details." -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pc-debian 2.4.21-1-k7 #2 Mon Jun 16 22:23:16 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.0 4.0.14-1.2 Berkeley v4.0 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.8.0-18 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.8.0-18 Core Perl modules. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:41:36PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:31:34PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.8.0-18 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: upstream > > > > Perl should warn about the deprecated usage of this: > > > > @i=(); > > if(defined(@i)) { > > print "foo\n"; > > } > > It does (and always did) for lexicals: > Apparently the same isn't true for global variables for some reason. Further digging shows this is intentional behaviour, see http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/214040 /* This is needed for if (defined %stash::) to work. Do not break Tk. */ I'm closing the bug. -- Niko Tyni [email protected]
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