Bug#512799: perl-base: please incorporate new warning for 'my $var = return myfunc()'

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

Package: perl-base
Version: 5.10.0-19
Severity: wishlist


Hello, I spent significant amount of time today in debug to notice stupid line
like

'my $var = return myfunc($arg1, $arg2);',

when of course I meant

'my $var = myfunc($arg1, $arg2);'.

As assigning something a return is useless, Perl could generate a
warning there.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc7jackyf (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-base depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.14.24    Debian package management system
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

perl-base recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-base suggests:
ii  perl                          5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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