What I didn't show was that I had 12 more warn statements all on column
0.

David Lowe wrote:
> 
> Billy et. al. -
> 
> >From the perlxs manpage:
> 
>        The function name and the return type must be placed on
>        separate lines and should be flush left-adjusted.
> 
> So it is interpreting warn("1") as the return type of a new function, and
> then looking to the next line for a function name.  It barfs because the
> function name ("if (rname)") is not flush with the left column.
> 
> In short: all the code within a single XSUB needs to be indented.
> 
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> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Billy Patton wrote:
> 
> > Using perl5.005 on solaris7 SUN
> > Can someone please explain why this fails with the following error :
> > Error: Cannot parse function definition from '  if (rname)' in Laff.xs,
> > line 2609
> >
> > CODE:
> > {
> >   prel_p          p;
> >   AV              *idav;
> >   int             i,nids=0,rel=0,ids[4096];
> >
> > warn("1");
> >   if (rname)
> >     rel = (!strcmp(rname,"EQUIPOT"))  ? lEQUIPOT
> >         : (!strcmp(rname,"EQUIV"))    ? lEQUIV
> >         : (!strcmp(rname,"UNDEF"))    ? lUNDEF
> >         : 0;
> >
> > but this works : the warn is now indented :
> >
> > CODE:
> > {
> >   prel_p          p;
> >   AV              *idav;
> >   int             i,nids=0,rel=0,ids[4096];
> >
> >   warn("1");
> >   if (rname)
> >     rel = (!strcmp(rname,"EQUIPOT"))  ? lEQUIPOT
> >         : (!strcmp(rname,"EQUIV"))    ? lEQUIV
> >         : (!strcmp(rname,"UNDEF"))    ? lUNDEF
> >         : 0;
> >
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