[perl #21946] Is ||= supposed work like this ?

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This is a bug report for perl from balazs@dwwc.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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Isn't

perl -e 'sub foo{delete $a->{x}; 2}; $a->{x}||=foo(); print $a->{x}' 

and 

perl -e 'sub foo{delete $a->{x}; 2}; $a->{x}=foo(); print $a->{x}'

supposed to print the same thing ? I understand that global variables are 
evil, but fwiw my intuition says that they should both print 2.

Thanks,

Balazs

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by bhcompile at Thu Aug  9 22:47:55 EDT 2001.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.6-3.1enterprise, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux stripples.devel.redhat.com 2.4.6-3.1enterprise #1 smp tue jul 24 14:03:17 edt 2001 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Dcc=gcc -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Uuselargefiles'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686', gccversion=2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/golf/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib
    /net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/net/balazs
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/net/balazs/fsrc/core/bin:/net/balazs/fsrc/media/bin:/net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/bin:/net/sysadm/bin:/net/sysadm:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/net/balazs/bin:/net/balazs/src/football/bin:/net/balazs/bin
    PERL5LIB=/net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/golf/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/media/appslib:/net/balazs/fsrc/core/lib:/net/balazs/fsrc/baseball/lib:
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #21946] Is ||= supposed work like this ? by Balazs Rauznitz