[perl #24276] Coercing arrays into hashes

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This is a bug report for perl from camel@abigail.nl,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.1.


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If I run the following program in 5.8.0, 5.8.1 or the current 5.8.2-to-be
(how do we call it? bleadmaint?):

    #!/usr/bin/perl
 
    use strict;
    use warnings;
 
    sub bug (\[%@]) {
        my $arg = shift;
 
        print ref $arg, "\n";
    }
 
    my $array = [0 .. 1];
    my $hash  = {foo => 'bar'};
 
    bug %$array;
    bug @$hash;
    __END__

I get:

    ARRAY
    Not an ARRAY reference at /tmp/bug line 16.

which is not what I would expect. I would expect:

    Not a HASH reference at /tmp/bug line 15.

and that's what bleadperl gives me.


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.1:

Configured by abigail at Thu Sep 25 15:27:20 CEST 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.18-bf2.4, archname=i686-linux-64int-ld
    uname='linux alexandra 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 son apr 14 09:53:28 cest 2002 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Uversiononly -Dmydomain=.abigail.nl -Dcf_email=camel@abigail.nl -Dperladmin=camel@abigail.nl -Doptimize=-g -Dusemorebits -Dusedevel -Dusenm=false -Dprefix=/opt/perl -Dcc=gcc -Duse64bitint'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-g',
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.0.4', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.2.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    Defined or
    No 'print (...) interpreted as function' warning

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@INC for perl v5.8.1:
    /home/abigail/Perl
    /opt/perl/lib/5.8.1/i686-linux-64int-ld
    /opt/perl/lib/5.8.1
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux-64int-ld
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.1
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-64int-ld
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.1:
    HOME=/home/abigail
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/abigail/Lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/abigail/Bin:/opt/perl/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/X11/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/share/texmf/bin:/opt/Acrobat/bin:/opt/java/blackdown/j2sdk1.3.1/bin:/usr/local/games/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/abigail/Perl
    PERLDIR=/opt/perl
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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