Solved: Re: Test::Exception error on Strawberry Perl 5.14.3 ('Bareword "xception" ...') [ Bug in Perl ]

in reply to Test::Exception error on Strawberry Perl 5.14.3 ('Bareword "xception" ...')

Hi, replying to myself for the archives. Thanks to Alexandr Ciornii (chorny) of CPAN testers, I've narrowed this down to an apparent bug in Strawberry Perl 5.14.3 .

I don't have a Win32 machine myself but chorny was kind enough to test a minimal script with only:

use open ':std', ':encoding(utf8)';
use Test::Exception;
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and it threw the same error. Removing the 'use open' line fixed the problem as syphilis guessed.

I installed 5.14.3 on my OS X machine and the test passes fine so it appears to be that particular version of Strawberry Perl.

Not going to file a bug report because I can't provide any useful diagnostic info. If anyone with Strawberry Perl 5.14.3 wished to do so, the gods would smile upon her or him.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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