Initialize only two persons reacted, one was in favour of removing it, one was against removing it. So, I provided a patch, and that got more reactions. Some in favour, some against. That's of course enough reaction to not have the patch accepted. Rafael suggested that it's possible to inspect the op-tree and determine whether 'print' is used as an operand in a boolean function, and to issue the warning only then. After a well Hugo responded we though that was a good idea, and if someone would implement it, he would accept it.

So, there is a tiny chance that in a few years, the warning won't give so many false positives anymore.

I also got the impression that the people who were in favour of keeping the warning are people who don't write a space between the function name and the opening paren, while among the people in favour of removing the warning were people who do put a space there.

But I have the patch, and from now on, I'll patch any perl I install so that it won't issue the warning.

Abigail

In reply to Re: (localtime)[3] vs. ((localtime)[3]) by Abigail-II
in thread (localtime)[3] vs. ((localtime)[3]) by Taulmarill

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