| Subject: | Programs using autocache won't run |
Basically doesn't work. Try this program:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Autocache;
autocache 'prepareWord';
sub prepareWord {
print "hello, world\n";
}
You get a compilation error:
String found where operator expected at ./foo line 8, near "autocache
'prepareWord'" (#1)
(S syntax) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator.
If it sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an
operator, it gives you this warning. Usually it indicates that an
operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon.
(Do you need to predeclare autocache?)
syntax error at ./foo line 8, near "autocache 'prepareWord'"
Execution of ./foo aborted due to compilation errors (#2)
(F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include:
A keyword is misspelled.
A semicolon is missing.
A comma is missing.
An opening or closing parenthesis is missing.
An opening or closing brace is missing.
A closing quote is missing.
Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax
error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on -w.)
The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when
it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens
before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input.
Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon
the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call
perl -c repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see
if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20
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BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
/usr/share/perl/5.10/Carp/Heavy.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.10/Carp.pm line 33.