Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] gitweb/gitweb.perl: remove use of qw(...) as parentheses

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 16:54, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> Using the qw(...) construct as implicit parentheses was deprecated in
>> perl 5.13.5. Change the relevant code in gitweb to not use the
>> deprecated construct. The offending code was introduced in 3562198b by
>> Jakub Narebski.
>
> It is strange that Perl introduces such backwards incompatibile change
> (well, actually will introduce, as 5.13.x is development branch leading
> to future Perl version 5.14).
>
> qw{} is described in perlop(1) as "word list" operator, so one would
> suppose that it generates a list.

It does, but it wasn't supposed to generate parens for you.

>> The issue is that perl will now warn about this:
>>
>>     $ perl -wE 'for my $i qw(a b) { say $i }'
>>     Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at -e line 1.
>>     a
>>     b
>
> Hmmm... does it affect only foreach loop, or dows it affect also other
> places, like
>
>      use POSIX qw( setlocale localeconv )
>      @EXPORT = qw( foo bar baz );
>
> Both of those forms are used by gitweb:
>
>      use CGI qw(:standard :escapeHTML -nosticky);
>
>      map { $_ => 'sh'  } qw(bash zsh ksh)
>      my @navs = qw(summary shortlog log commit commitdiff tree);

No. This is being deprecated because qw(foo bar) is supposed to mean
"foo, "bar", not ("foo", "bar"). I.e. this doesn't compile:

    for my $i "a", "b", "c" { }

So neither should this:

    for my $i qw(a b c) {}

But these both work:

    for my $i ("a", "b", "c") { }
    for my $i (qw(a b c)) {}

All of your other examples could have used a list without implicit
parens. So this is the only change that's needed in gitweb.