/* from op.c */ if (ckWARN(WARN_VOID)) { useless = "a constant"; /* the constants 0 and 1 are permitted as they are conventionally used as dummies in constructs like 1 while some_condition_with_side_effects; */ if (SvNIOK(sv) && (SvNV(sv) == 0.0 || SvNV(sv) == 1.0)) useless = 0; else if (SvPOK(sv)) { /* perl4's way of mixing documentation and code (before the invention of POD) was based on a trick to mix nroff and perl code. The trick was built upon these three nroff macros being used in void context. The pink camel has the details in the script wrapman near page 319. */ if (strnEQ(SvPVX(sv), "di", 2) || strnEQ(SvPVX(sv), "ds", 2) || strnEQ(SvPVX(sv), "ig", 2)) useless = 0; } }