Yeah, I don't understand having a warning for "my ... if 0;" but not for other "my ... if ...", especially since the second construct is more likely to be a real bug.

The warning for "my ... if 0;" should convey something along the lines of "stop doing that hack to get 'state' variables as we won't guarantee that it will continue to work". The warning for other "my ... if ...;" should convey "you've got a bug there; move the 'my' out from under the 'if'".

It is silly to warn for something that actually works fine but in theory might stop working some day while silently accepting something that just indicates a mistake (I've never seen code that intentionally and correctly used the behavior of "my ... if maybe();"), and a subtle mistake that is easy to not notice in testing. The second case is much more deserving of a warning.

- tye        

In reply to Re^4: Closure warning with Perl 5.14? ("my ... if ...;") by tye
in thread Closure warning with Perl 5.14? by BerntB

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