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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
November 25, 2000 11:46
Subject:
Re: SvOOK_on
Message ID:
E13zlFg-0003o4-00@roam1
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes:
>On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:46:34AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 12:25:57 CST, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>> >On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 06:20:15PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>> >> but I can find no part of the perl tree that ever seems to turn on this
>> >> feature. Am I missing something, or is this now an unused vestige, or do
>> >
>> >I tried to find such a spot once, too, with as plentiful results as you
>> >have got.
>>
>> See sv_chop().
>
>Okay, I must be blind. But I blame the whoever it was who wrote
>sv_chop() for not using SvOOK_on(sv) :-)
The _odd_ thing about that is that SvOOK would seem to be about lying
about the _start_ of the string, and chop makes one think of the end
of the string. The other place that seems to use it (as one might
expect) is s/^...//;
>
>> Sarathy
>> gsar@ActiveState.com
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Nick Ing-Simmons
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