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Re: Regex match variables, threads, and recursion

From:
Gurusamy Sarathy
Date:
November 5, 1999 10:49
Subject:
Re: Regex match variables, threads, and recursion
Message ID:
199911051855.KAA06144@activestate.com
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 13:31:47 EST, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>There are a handful of other features that suffer from the same
>problem.  Some of these were discussed in the thread from 1998
>(Subject: Shared OPs among closures) This may include stateful scalar
>operators such as glob() and .. and ... --- Chip and Sarathy spent
>some time discussing these, but I was not able to figure out who was
>right.  I just wrote a test for glob(), though, and it appears that
>glob() does exhibit the bad behavior.

I'm in the process of fixing GVOPs to fetch their GV from the
pad.  (You'll see GVOP has been changed to PADOP in op.h if you
peek in the patch archive/repository browser.  But's it isn't
complete yet.)

>Tim Bunce: ``The same issue applies to threads.''
>http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-02/msg00101.html


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com



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