Re: Perl 5.12 complains about ecpg parser-hacking scripts

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl 5.12 complains about ecpg parser-hacking scripts
Date: 2011-01-23 01:40:13
Message-ID: 4D3B86FD.1070505@dunslane.net
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On 01/22/2011 06:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> On Fedora 14 I see these warnings while building ecpg's preproc.y:
>
> Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated at ./parse.pl line 21.
> Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated at ./check_rules.pl line 18.
>
> Any Perl experts want to make those go away?
>
>

I think these really need to be rewritten from scratch. They look like
they were written by someone who never heard of Perl 5 (it's only about
16 years old).

We could probably silence the warnings by putting:

use warnings; no warnings qw(deprecate);

at the top of the file, but that would be rather like putting a bandaid
on a massive chest wound.

cheers

andrew

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