> at least people are getting a warning in the first place,

yep, as a side note:

"devision by 0" is a "silent Not_a_Number" in some languages like JS

I.e. not a fatal stop of execution!

Not any exception which could be activated or caught!

Just returning "NaN" from calculation.

> there's the "thanks for the warning but I know what I'm doing" crowd,

And we had recently a discussion about people complaining that undefined values raise far too many warnings. ;-)

> > why "misc" category and not, say, "hash"/"odd"?!?!

> That is an excellent point

most likely the set of warnings was expanded gradually over time...

update

> worthy of a patch or at least feature request to P5P.

well I'm more concerned that obvious compile time errors aren't reported

perl -we 'sub tst {%h=\%h}'

(reusing %h to silence "only used one")

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Re^2: Why is "odd number of elements in hash assignment" warning and not error? by LanX
in thread Why is "odd number of elements in hash assignment" warning and not error? by Dallaylaen

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