Bug#690735: "state" example in pod is broken

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: libparams-validate-perl
Version: 1.06-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/lib/perl5/Params/Validate.pm

>From the docs:

       You can also use the "state" feature to do this:

           use feature 'state';

           sub foo {
               state %spec = ( ... );
               my %params = validate( @_, \%spec );
           }

Doesn't quite work:

anthony at Zia:~$ perl -E 'state %foo = (a => 1)'
Initialization of state variables in list context currently forbidden at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

The example should read something like this:

           use feature 'state';

           sub foo {
               state $spec = { ... };
               my %params = validate( @_, $spec );
           }

Which, I confess, I haven't (yet) tested. Appears to be tradition :-P

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libparams-validate-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                          2.13-35
ii  libmodule-implementation-perl  0.06-1
ii  perl                           5.14.2-13
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.14.2]     5.14.2-13

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