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I'm afriad I'm unable to duplicate that here. I get the warning both when I -c it, and when I run it which, as far I as I know, is the correct behavior. This is with both ActiveState perl, and Cygwin perl.

Perhaps you can post the code that's causes that behavior? You're not on 5.8.0, are you? Both of my perl's are 5.6.1. *shrug*

(Output from my test below)

[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ cat tst
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

sub foo { return 3 }

*blah = \&foo;
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ perl -c tst
Name "main::blah" used only once: possible typo at tst line 8.
tst syntax OK
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ ./tst
Name "main::blah" used only once: possible typo at ./tst line 8.
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ /win2k/Perl/bin/perl tst
Name "main::blah" used only once: possible typo at tst line 8.
[johnsca@CORY tmp]$ /win2k/Perl/bin/perl -v 

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002


Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.
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bbfu
Black flowers blossum
Fearless on my breath

In reply to (bbfu) (warning only during -c) Re3: 'used once' during perl -c by bbfu
in thread 'used once' during perl -c by John M. Dlugosz

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