A bareword is an unquoted string appearing in Perl source. Depending on context it is treated as a sub call or a string (or a filehandle and a few other things I'd imagine).
Barewords that are not sub calls are generally not permitted under "use strict" (specifically "use strict 'subs'"), with exceptions such as inside a hash key or immediately preceding a fat comma '=>'. In your case, you appear to have omitted the sigil $ before 'attrs' in your call to 'new'. See 'perldoc perldata' for more info on barewords and 'perldoc strict' for more info on what "use strict 'subs' forbids and allows. Cheers, Michael Michael Brader Senior Software Engineer - Billing Techops - Softdev Internode http://www.internode.on.net/ ________________________________________ From: Mark Haney [ma...@abemblem.com] Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012 7:58 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Bareword and strict subs I'm getting this error in one of my packages (built by a previous coder): > Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use In this case the "%s" is attrs. Here's the bit of code it's choking on: sub insert_shift { my $self = shift; my $attrs = @_; my $m = $self->schema->resultset('Shifts')->new(attrs); $m->insert; } I've googled this error, but what I've found is not very informative. I have no idea what a Bareword is in the Perl context. Can someone explain what's going on? -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem ma...@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
