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Re: What should assignment to $< and $( do?

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Date:
May 22, 2012 15:22
Subject:
Re: What should assignment to $< and $( do?
Message ID:
20120522222218.GA528@walrus.local
* Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> [2012-02-18T15:20:58]
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Ricardo Signes
> <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
> > Leon, my re-reading of this thread and the recent discussion on RT of
> > UID-fetching is that fixes have been made to cached ids -- not yet applied, but
> > likely to be -- but that assignment has not been changed.
> >
> > Am I incorrect?  Shall I add assignment to these to the list of things
> > likely to get touched early in 5.17?
> 
> Correct. I don't think this is that big of a change that it needs to
> be pre-announced, but it can't harm. Also, our existent probes may be
> flawed as I seem to get "Operation is not implemented" on OS-X for my
> patch and even fuzzier results some OpenBSD and GNU/kFreeBSD.
> 
> I do plan to write an updated documentation patch for 5.16 though.

Will we see this change soon? :)  (I'm going through my backlog of messages to
review post-5.16 :)

-- 
rjbs




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