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Re: [PATCH] $SIG::UNSAFE

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
February 23, 2003 09:37
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] $SIG::UNSAFE
Message ID:
20030223173743.GF26630@kosh.hut.fi
> How exactly is it a problem in old perls?  This did not produce
> any warnings/errors in 5.00503:
> 
>     local $SIG{XYZ} = 'foo' if $^V;

Try -w with 5.6.1.  In this discussion "old" is anything pre-5.8.0.

> ...
> Agree.  I didn't say it was lexically scoped.

And I said: patches welcome.

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

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