Re: [perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body

perl5-porters@ton.iguana.be (Ton Hospel) wrote:
> So setting $* to undef (or 0) indeed solves it.
> However, the test before the local shows that $* actually
> already was undef !. But removing the local makes it fail again.

That's normal, because reading the value of $* at this point doesn't
give the value of the internal PL_multiline variable, which was == 1.

> Making $* lexically scoped probably already breaks pograms that still
> depend on it. So kill it, I'd say. It has been documented as deprecated
> for a long time, and gives a deprecation warning in actual code.

I like this idea.

• [perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body by perl5-porters
• [perl #22354] remove $* by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [perl #22354] remove $* by A. Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #22354] s/// flags influence regex use in the replacement body by Rafael Garcia-Suarez
• Re: [perl #22354] remove $* by Richard Soderberg
• Re: [perl #22354] remove $* by david nicol
• Re: [perl #22354] remove $* by Abigail