I just send the following letter to p5p: 
This is a plea to remove the 'print (...) interpreted as function'
warning.
 
Let's look at the rational for this warning. It's to warn programmers
that if they write:
 
    print (3 + 4) * 2;
 
Perl adds 3 and 4, calls print with the result as argument, and multip
+lies
the result of the print with 2. Fair and square, but this unintentiona
+l
parsing can happen with all functions taking a list as argument, not j
+ust
print. However, only 'print' and 'printf' can have this warning trigge
+red,
with other functions are save.
 
But it gets more special. The warning is only triggered if there is
exactly one space between 'print' and the opening parenthesis.
 
    print(3 + 4) * 2;     # No 'interpreted as function' warning.
    print (3 + 4) * 2;    # 'interpreted as function' warning.
    print  (3 + 4) * 2;   # No 'interpreted as function' warning.
 
The disadvantage of this warning is that it is also triggered at
perfectly valid code like:
 
    print (3);
 
Therefore, I suggest we remove this warning, specially since code like
+:
 
    print (3 + 4) * 2;
 
already issues a warning "Useless use of multiplication (*) in void co
+ntext",
regardless of the amount of whitespace between 'print' and the opening
parenthesis.

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Abigail

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