Re: another dumpvar panic in RC2

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> wrote
> Looks like dumpvar doesn't know about these funny bits:
>
>     % perl -lwe 'sub foo; print $main::{foo}'
>     -1
>     % perl -lwe 'sub foo ($@); print $main::{foo}'
>     $@

That's somewhat ironic in view of Ilya's response to Jeff Pinyan's
bug report in 

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-03/msg00569.html

And as I remarked in that thread, this feature needs documenting.


Mike Guy

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