I'm looking for a dictionary or encyclopedia of sorts for Perl error and warning messages. I searched for the following, didn't find much of use. 
Use of uninitialized value in method with known name at blah.pl line 1
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Yes, I understand what the issue is, I was just wondering what the extra verbage with in method with known name contributes? Are there methods with unknown names? Or is this perhaps a defensive/pro-active message, where the parser knew something about the context, and threw that in for free? I'm not against putting useful stuff in error messages, but this seems, to me at least, to distract from the real issue.

Here's an example of an offending line: 

$self->{$Foo}{$Bar} = $self->{$Baz}{undef}->method;

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(where undef is suitable replaced by an undefined $calar)

-QM
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