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[perl #59522] surprising behavior when $ is left off $last



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Message-Id: <5.8.8_21966_1222869873@gps>

This is a bug report for perl from jpl@research.att.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.8.


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Here's a distilled version of a test suite surprise
(well, it surprised me, anyway).

suprise.pl:
===
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

sub ok {
    my $bool = shift;
    print(@_, "\n") if ($bool);
}

{
    my $last = 3;
    my $i = 2;
    ok(0 < $i && $i < $last, "In the middle"); # what I meant
    ok(0 < $i && $i < last, "In the middle");  # what I wrote
}
===

I accidentally left the $ off the $last in the last statement.
What surprised me is that there was no syntax error.
There's a run-time error
  Can't "last" outside a loop block at surp.pl line 13.
if I don't have the code in a block, but, being inside a block,
there are no errors at compile time or runtime.

No biggie, but it took a while to figure out why my tests
were exiting early.  -- jpl

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.8:

Configured by Debian Project at Tue Nov 27 10:56:10 GMT 2007.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.7, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    uname='linux palmer 2.6.15.7 #1 smp thu sep 7 19:42:20 utc 2006 i686 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-3ubuntu4)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.6.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8
    gnulibc_version='2.6.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.8:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8
    /usr/share/perl/5.8
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.8:
    HOME=/home/jpl
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/jpl/i686bin:/home/jpl/bin:/honk/mysql/bin:/usr/common/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/bin/postscript:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ast/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/wordnet1.7/bin:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh


Follow-Ups from:
"Rafael Garcia-Suarez" <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Moritz Lenz <moritz@casella.verplant.org>

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