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On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:40:13 BST, Alan Burlison wrote: >Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > >> I doubt that change#1307 is the problem--we call sv_mortalcopy() in >> lots of other situations. > >Yes, but not where tied magic is involved. How do you know? sv_mortalcopy() is called *unconditionally* in lots of places (when returning values from a subroutine, or in C<($x,@a) = @a>, for instance). >Shouldn't tie magic be disabled when retrieving from the array >'underneath' a tie? Unless this is done, self-ties cannot ever work. >If self-ties are deemed to be unsupported, then pp_tie should detect and >attemt to do so and croak. That is certainly the easiest option. I'm >happy to have a crack at getting them to work correctly, but I'd need >someone with a sufficiently pointy hat to make some suggestions as to >how to do it. Code always makes people talk. :-) Sarathy gsar@ActiveState.comThread Previous | Thread Next