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in thread Why is "odd number of elements in hash assignment" warning and not error?

Sure, I can fatalize some warnings. The problem is, there are a lot of different warnings under this misc group, caused by various conditions.

Search for W misc in perldoc perldiag was an enlightening reading, and I had a good laugh reproducing some of those beasts. Most of those conditions do look like a loaded gun pointed at a foot, but not all.

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Re^3: Why is "odd number of elements in hash assignment" warning and not error?
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 19, 2015 at 19:52 UTC
    > there are a lot of different warnings under this misc group,

    just overwrite warn or die in %SIG according to your needs.

    > Most of those conditions do look like a loaded gun pointed at a foot, but not all.

    You know I love criticizing Perl, its part of my mentality to openly discuss room for improvements. Call me an anti fan boy.

    But whenever I try to get used to supposedly better designed languages (JS, Python, Ruby, ...) I'm instantly stumbling over something weird.

    And the answer I normally get after asking "why" is "yeah for historical reasons we had to do it like this and can't change it now"

    Misc is a good point, please send a feature request via Perlbug

    Cheers Rolf

    PS: Je suis Charlie!

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