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On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 08:55 , Puneet Kishor wrote:
> thanks Ken, for saving me from perlobotomy. use strict works.
>
> phew!
>
> wonder what the heck use Strict was... case gremlins.
>
> On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 08:12 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> You should be typing 'use strict;', not 'use Strict;'.
>> Perhaps the filesystem is returning the contents of Strict.pm
>> and perl is losing track of it in %INC.
>>
>> On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 10:54 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
>>
>>> can anyone tell me what on earth these messages in my
>>> httpd/error_log mean.
>>>
>>> [Sun Mar 17 22:51:30 2002] Strict.pm: Subroutine bits redefined at
I'm guessing you're using HFS+ for your filesystem. HFS+ is (let
me see if I can get this right) case-insensitive and
non-case-folding, which means that (a) if you create a file with
the name "strict.pm", the case of the letters in the filename
will be preserved, but (b) if you ask for "Strict.pm" in the
same directory, you'll get "strict.pm" instead.
craigc@samantha craigc $ locate strict.pm
/System/Library/Perl/strict.pm
So here's the rest of the guess. You had "use Strict;" in your
code. perl looked in %INC for "Strict.pm", didn't find it, went
looking through @INC, and found "strict.pm", which was added to
%INC and the file by that name was loaded. The next time "use
Strict.pm" was encountered, perl again looked in %INC for
"Strict.pm", and again didn't find it (because "strict.pm" was
in there instead), etc.
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