Heh. Ive encountered a bunch of weirdness with using my and modifiers. (I've even argued that it should produce a warning.) I haven't seen the static variable trick. Thats scary. Cool Scary though. :-)

However I'm still not convinced that this error message couldn't be improved.

BTW, the static trick only works with if 0; and for (); and thus I still consider it something that should produce a warning.

sub umm()    { print "---\n"}
sub _caller(){(caller(1))[3]=~/^(?:main::)?(.*)$/}

sub for_blah
{
  my $foo for 1;
  printf "%-15s %d\n",_caller,$foo++;
}

sub not_for_blah
{
  my $foo for ();
  printf "%-15s %d\n",_caller,$foo++;
}

sub if_blah
{
  my $foo if 1;
  printf "%-15s %d\n",_caller,$foo++;
}

sub not_if_blah
{
  my $foo if 0;
  printf "%-15s %d\n",_caller,$foo++;
}

for_blah(),for_blah(),for_blah(),umm,
not_for_blah(),not_for_blah(),not_for_blah(),umm,
if_blah(),if_blah(),if_blah(),umm,
not_if_blah(),not_if_blah(),not_if_blah(),umm;
__END__
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# No assignment        #With assignment 
for_blah        0      for_blah        0
for_blah        0      for_blah        0
for_blah        0      for_blah        0
---                    ---              
not_for_blah    0      not_for_blah    0
not_for_blah    1      not_for_blah    1
not_for_blah    2      not_for_blah    2
---                    ---              
if_blah         0      if_blah         1
if_blah         0      if_blah         1
if_blah         0      if_blah         1
---                    ---              
not_if_blah     0      not_if_blah     0
not_if_blah     1      not_if_blah     1
not_if_blah     2      not_if_blah     2
---                    ---
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