X-Git-Url: http://git.vpit.fr/?p=perl%2Fmodules%2Findirect.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=29e4f47580db0dada5efad785a2f15e77ca98493;hp=18baca1937f77f7e2ae3bc8d39b1aada845f2bd4;hb=554466eac93eb0abec78e190fe175b03eec782f2;hpb=7ceabf5e2fe6657393e21351e78669cc419c5c4c diff --git a/README b/README index 18baca1..29e4f47 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ NAME indirect - Lexically warn about using the indirect object syntax. VERSION - Version 0.13 + Version 0.14 SYNOPSIS # In a script @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ DESCRIPTION turn it on by calling "no indirect"), this pragma warns about indirect object syntax constructs that may have slipped into your code. This syntax is now considered harmful, since its parsing has many quirks and - its use is error prone (when "sub" isn't defined, "sub $x" is actually - interpreted as "$x->sub"). + its use is error prone (when "swoosh" isn't defined, "swoosh $x" + actually compiles to "$x->swoosh"). It currently does not warn when the object is enclosed between braces (like "meth { $obj } @args") or for core functions ("print" or "say"). @@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ CONSTANTS True iff the module could have been built when thread-safety features. CAVEATS + The implementation was tweaked to work around several limitations of + vanilla "perl" pragmas : it's thread safe, and doesn't suffer from a + "perl 5.8.x-5.10.0" bug that causes all pragmas to propagate into + "require"d scopes. + "meth $obj" (no semicolon) at the end of a file won't be seen as an indirect object syntax, although it will as soon as there is another token before the end (as in "meth $obj;" or "meth $obj 1").