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rovf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

On Windows, the following code issues neither error nor warning: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use file::path; # error! shoud be File::Path

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Searching a bit, I found that this problem was already discussed 10 years ago here, and a fix for Perl was suggested.

Now I wonder why this was never fixed....
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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Re: Case errors in "use" statements on Windoze
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 10, 2011 at 01:59 UTC

    Now I wonder why this was never fixed....

    I don't know :)

    This got in http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/history/HEAD:/lib/strict.pm 

    # Verify that we're called correctly so that strictures will work.
unless ( __FILE__ =~ /(^|[\/\\])\Q${\__PACKAGE__}\E\.pmc?$/ ) {
    # Can't use Carp, since Carp uses us!
    my (undef, $f, $l) = caller;
    die("Incorrect use of pragma '${\__PACKAGE__}' at $f line $l.\n");
}


$ perl -MStRiCt -e 1
Incorrect use of pragma 'strict' at -e line 0.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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    Same for warnings 
    # Verify that we're called correctly so that warnings will work.
# see also strict.pm.
unless ( __FILE__ =~ /(^|[\/\\])\Q${\__PACKAGE__}\E\.pmc?$/ ) {
    my (undef, $f, $l) = caller;
    die("Incorrect use of pragma '${\__PACKAGE__}' at $f line $l.\n");
}
$ perl -MWaRnInGs -e 1
Incorrect use of pragma 'warnings' at -e line 0.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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    The accompanying thread dated April 16, 2007 The Strict trap hints at some reasons, like it would break existing code, etc

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