Package: perl
Version: 5.14.2-6
Severity: wishlist
The first syntax error is caught, but not the next, even with use strict.
$ perl -lwe '($h{a}+ 9,$h{f})=(3,2); print for values %h'
Can't modify addition (+) in list assignment at -e line 1, near );
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation
jida...@jidanni.org writes:
$ perl -lwe 'use strict;my $h;($h+=9)=(3); print $h'
3
If it is not a syntax error then it should be.
If Perl were a different language with different semantics, it could be a
syntax error, but it's not. I don't see how that could be a syntax error
without
Well OK then. Makes sense. Probably not worth the effort that would be
involved to detect and raise a warning either.
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