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On Thu Oct 27 13:00:50 2011, sprout wrote:
> 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.
This also affects subroutines declared under ‘use v5.16’. How are
*they* to distinguish between <*.c> and glob('*.c', '*.a')?
(looks_like_number($_[1]) is too fragile.) Since glob() would have to
use some other means than the second argument (e.g., Devel::CallSite) to
determine the caller, maybe that could apply to <...> as well, when it
calls a glob override. I.e., it shouldn’t pass the magic second argument.
This is much more of a mess than I’d hoped....
(I hope somebody is reading this and has some ideas.)
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