Re: [FWP] Re: [Silly Fun WP] Perl error messages

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 01:42:19PM +0000, John Carter wrote:
> Maybe the first challenge should be to trigger 
> 
> "%s found where operator expected"
> 
> With %s replaced by "idiot".

%s in that error message is replaced with the type of term, not with the
term itself, i.e.:

$a = "foo"
"idiot"

String found where operator expected at - line 2, near ""idiot""
^^^^^^                                                  ^^^^^^^

Ronald

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