I guess I'm sort of responsible for this. Before 5.8.1, any string following use strict was allowed. After spending about a day trying to find out why I was still getting redefine warnings in my code, I found out that in fact instead of: no warnings 'redefine' I had put no strict 'redefine' which somehow made sense in my mind. Except that it didn't silence the redefine warnings. But didn't give me any error either.

I decided to submit a patch to p5p that would warn like this: 

$ perl5.8.1 -M-strict=redefine -e 1
Unknown 'strict' tag(s) 'redefine' at -e line 0

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and the patch got accepted. Even though 5.8.1 is not out officially, I think the perl that is in RH9.0 is sufficiently like 5.8.1 to have this patch applied.

As to the fact that it works fine in RH7.3. Well maybe, but technically the line was wrong: @ISA got defined as a side effect. Observe: 

$ perl5.8.0 -Mstrict -e "@ISA = ()"
Global symbol "@ISA" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

$ perl5.8.0 -Mstrict=@ISA -e "@ISA = ()"

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As to why it got defined originally as a side-effect, I don't know yet. The code in strict.pm is pretty straightforward so there must be som magic going on. I guess I am too tired now to see exactly why it's getting defined. I'll sleep on it and update tomorrow.

Liz

In reply to Re: apache2 conflicts with strict declaration by liz
in thread apache2 conflicts with strict declaration by helick

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