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[ This is a reply to Jeff's message on p5p. I'm sending it via
perlbug@perl.com to get a bugid. ]
Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net> wrote
> my sendmail isn't agreeing with perlbug, so...
Do you mean "disagreeing with the perlbug program" or "disagreeing with
perlbug@perl.com" ? You can always mail reports directly to
perlbug@perl.com in order to get a bugid, perhaps preparing them using
the -F option of perlbug (the program).
> It's a bit puzzling to me, since I've been told from #perl-folk that it
> prints *main::bar (not -1) in 5.004.
Both examples print "*main::bar" in all versions of Perl up to 5.004_05.
They print "-1" and "$@" in all versions from 5.005 onwards.
Ilya says this is a deliberate change. But it causes the following
from perlmod to be incorrect:
The value in each entry of the hash is what you are
referring to when you use the *name typeglob notation. In
fact, the following have the same effect, though the first
is more efficient because it does the symbol table lookups
at compile time:
local *main::foo = *main::bar;
local $main::{foo} = $main::{bar};
And I can find no relevant entry in either perl5.005delta or perldelta.
So someething needs fixing, even if it's only the documentation.
Mike Guy