Re^3: Perl oddities

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re^2: Perl oddities
in thread Perl oddities

As noted, I find the oddity in that it warns about exactly one space - althought it doesn't do that always:

    perl -wle 'print ("foo")'    # Warning
    perl -wle 'print ("foo");'   # No warning
    perl -wle 'print (")");'     # Warning
    perl -wle 'print ("\x29");'  # No warning

Now, I know why it's happening (I've studied the source), and I also know what the intent is, but that's beside the point. brian asked about oddities, and I do find this an oddity.

But the single space is not the only thing that I find an oddity. I also find it odd (as in, irregular, different that you would expect based on how similar constructs are handled - you know, what brian was asking for - so spare me the explainations on why it is this way - I know already) that is only has these warnings for print and I think one other function. For other functions, it doesn't warn.

$ perl -wle 'print ("foo") . "bar"'
print (...) interpreted as function at -e line 1.
Useless use of concatenation (.) or string in void context at -e line 
+1.
foo
$ perl -wle 'my $s = length ("foo") . "bar"'

Why warn only with print and a single space, but not with length or other functions? Or other amounts of whitespace? That I find an oddity.