[lug] Print warnings from Perl...

[Chip Atkinson]

Ok, thanks.  That was really wierd.  I call print all the time with a
space before the parentheses.  Taking either away works great.
Thanks again guys!

Chip
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> * Chip Atkinson (chip at rmpg.org) wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm trying to print a close parenthesis ()) in perl and get warnings when
> > trying to do so when using the -w option.  Any ideas on how to stop the
> > warnings?
> >
> > Here's the program and output:
> >
> > chip 17> perl -w syn.pl
> > print (...) interpreted as function at syn.pl line 4.
> > print (...) interpreted as function at syn.pl line 5.
> > print (...) interpreted as function at syn.pl line 6.
> > X
> > )
> > \))
> >
> > chip 18> cat syn.pl
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > print ("X\n");
> > print ("\)\n");
> > print ('\)');
> > print (")\n");
> >
> >
> I don't think it is complaing about the parenthesis, but rather the
> space between print and the functional parens:
>
> print "foo"
>
> uses print as a built in.  You can also call print as a function:
>
> print("foo").
>
> You are giving:
>
> print ("foo").
>
> The warning is just saying, hey I assumed you meant that as a function.
> Take away the space, and the warning will go away.  At least it did for
> me.
>
> Tim
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