subroutine redefined warning

[jyothsna]

How to avoid "subroutine redefined" warning in perl.
what are the possible cases of getting this warning and avoid it.

 

[attn.steven.kuo]

How to avoid "subroutine redefined" warning in perl.
what are the possible cases of getting this warning and avoid it.

The warning is issued because you redefined a
subroutine.

You can turn off the warning.
See perldoc perlexwarn.

For example:

use strict;
use warnings;

use vars qw(*foo);

sub bar {
print "bar";
}


{
no warnings 'redefine';
local *bar = sub {
print "foo";
};
bar();
}

bar();

 

[Paul Lalli]

The warning is issued because you redefined a
subroutine.

You can turn off the warning.

I would wager that about 9 times out of 10, this is the equivalent of
sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR
YOU!!".

Don't ignore warnings. Fix them.

Figure out where you're redefining the subroutine (read the WHOLE
warning message, including the parts about line numbers and filenames),
and then decide if that's really something you wanted to do.

Paul Lalli

 

[xhoster]

How to avoid "subroutine redefined" warning in perl.

Don't redefine your subroutine. Or turn off the warning.

what are the possible cases of getting this warning and avoid it.

I usually get this warning when I abstract some common subroutine out of
many scripts, and put it into a central module. But then I find/run some
scripts which I forgot to abstract it out of, so it gets defined once in
the module and once in the script itself.

Xho