From: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> > For some reason - maybe because my students are not English speakers - > many of them type > > use warning; > > Which gives them the following error: > > Can't locate warning.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /home/gabor/perl5lib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi > ...
You do not have to explain @INC right away. "Can't locate warning.pm" sounds clear enough to me. You tell them Perl libraries/modules have the .pm extension and that this message meant that they either mistyped the module name or that it's not installed. No need to dive into more details. I think the message would be even better without the "in @INC", but that doesn't matter much. The fact that @INC holds the list of library directories is apparent. IMHO if you want to give better explanations, post patches to perldiag and add use diagnostics; to the beginner mode programs. And to find the other possibly problematic code constructs I think you'd better use Perl::Critic with whatever settings you think are best for beginners than attempting to develop your own. I do believe most of the confusing things are already covered. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
