SPUG: Too long to find bug: Fat comma and assignment look similar, and have some similar meaning

[Michael R. Wolf]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Charles DeRykus wrote:

> I can't think of good use for fat/skinny comma in that context but
> maybe a more devious mind is needed..
>
> It does seem odd that rand (srand too) don't warn since other
> arithmetic functions do:
>
>   perl -wle 'my $x => sin'
>   Useless use of sin in void context ...
>   Use of uninitialized value $_ in sin ...
>
>   and similiar warnings for cos, exp, int, log ..


And similar warnings for other bare words...

my $x => my_func;		# Warning
my $x => my_func();	# No warning

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