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From:
Daniel Chetlin
Date:
September 16, 2000 03:30
Subject:
Re: unicode support and perl
Message ID:
20000916032842.F6557@ilmd
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:38:08AM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> We have a mechanism in Test.pm for tests which should work but which 
> don't yet. A patch that added one of those would be safe to apply even if
> the patch that fixed the problem was not to hand.

OK, I'll bite -- I have a test which should work but doesn't yet.
Unfortunately, it also dumps core. What's the mechanism for that?

-dlc

--- pragma/overload.t	2000/09/16 10:11:29	1.1
+++ pragma/overload.t	2000/09/16 10:22:44
@@ -969,5 +969,13 @@
     test($a =~ /^`1' is not a code reference at/); # 215
 }
 
+# make sure that we don't inifinitely recurse
+{ my $c = 0;
+  package Recurse;
+  use overload '""' => sub { shift };
+  my $x = bless([]);
+  main::test "$x";		# 216
+};
+
 # Last test is:
-sub last {215}
+sub last {217}

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