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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: It's confused that local variable's value not change in
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Hi -

> I never found that especially confusing, but I can see how the message
> might be improved.
> 
> - WARNING: confusing usage, consider @entry($a->$)
> + WARNING: value of  $a is captured at function entry and will not reflect
> any changes made since; consider explicitly using @entry($a->$)
> 
> or something like that?

Done, thanks for the idea.
The message is relatively long, but less confusing. 

- FChE