Item14153: Approval Plugin not working with perl 5.22.1
Priority: Urgent
Current State: Confirmed
Released In: n/a
Target Release:
The switch in _handleTag is not working any longer in perl 5.22 for some reason.
Had to rewrite without using the comma operator.
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NicholasSushkin - 01 Sep 2016
Yes, this code seems to be really old perl 4 syntax, if I'm coming even close to understanding it.
PerlCritic does detect the issue at "severity 4":
Comma used to separate statements at line 220, column 9. See pages 68,71 of PBP. (Severity: 4)
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GeorgeClark - 25 Sep 2016