"...interpreted as function" (was: Re: Usenix BOF anyone)

[email protected] (Tom Phoenix)
Newsgroups perl.trainers
Organization Society for the Elimination of Unwarranted Excess Superfluous Text in Internet Header Lines
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Peter Scott wrote:

> ObPerl: How to explain to a class of complete novices why parens are needed 
> in my ($x, $y); but if you follow a general rule of "put parens in 
> everywhere until you figure out where you can leave them out" you get 
> benign warnings "foo(...) interpreted as function"...

Can you give an example of real-world, correct code which causes a
"benign" warning about something being interpreted as a function? As far
as I can see, if you get that warning, there's something you should be
attentive to. But maybe your dictionary defines "benign" differently than
mine. :-)

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