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RFC: Overridable keywords ([perl #96116] File::Glob ':glob' causes infinite loop)

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
October 27, 2011 13:00
Subject:
RFC: Overridable keywords ([perl #96116] File::Glob ':glob' causes infinite loop)
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-31297-1319745650-942.96116-15-0@perl.org
On Thu Oct 27 12:58:36 2011, sprout wrote:
> We could continue to have that work for <...>, but then how does
> List::Gen::glob tell the difference between <*> and glob('*',42)?  One
> solution to that is to continue to treat glob overrides specially under
> ‘use v5.16’ as long as the subroutine itself was *not* declared under
> ‘use v5.16’.

XS modules are not really declared in any Perl scope, but XS glob
overrides are rare enough I don’t think we have to worry about that.


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