[perl #24435] setting multiple blank references using multipliers ties them together

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This is a bug report for perl from jtc@bmnetwerks.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.008.


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Trying to create multiple blank references on one line, like so:

my($var1 , $var2 , $var3) = ([])x3;

Ties them together in such a way that doing:

push($var1,"Foo bar.");

Will actually push that on to $var2 and $var3 as well.  The same
holds true with hashrefs in that:

my($var1 , $var2 , $var3) = ({})x3;
$var1->{"foo"} = "bar";

Then $var2->{"foo"} eq "bar" and $var3->{"foo"} eq "bar".

To increase the level of odd behaviour in this, if you do:

my($var1 , $var2 , $var3 , $var4) = ({},{})x2;
$var1->{"foo"} = "bar";

It will be set in $var1 and $var3, but not 2 and 4.

This behaviour is consistant on perl 5.004 and 5.6.1 as well.

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This perlbug was built using Perl 5.00502 - Tue Feb 16 14:57:39 EST 1999
It is being executed now by  Perl 5.008 - Thu Apr 24 22:15:35 PDT 2003.

Site configuration information for perl 5.008:

Configured by chris at Thu Apr 24 22:15:35 PDT 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos carol 5.7 generic_106541-23 sun4u sparc
sunw,ultra-enterprise '
    config_args='-de -Dusethreads -Dcc=gcc'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.0.4', gccosandvers='solaris2.7'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib '
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lrt -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lrt -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags=' -Wl,-E -G -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.008:
    /home/jereme/lib/5.6.0
    /home/jereme/lib
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl 5.008:
    HOME=/home/jereme
    LANG (unset)
   
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/mysql/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
   
PATH=/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/opt/SUNWppro/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/script:/usr/sbin:/home/joel/bin:/usr/local/apache/share:/home/jereme/lib
    PERL5LIB=/home/jereme/lib
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

• [perl #24435] setting multiple blank references using multipliers ties them together by Jereme Claussen
• Re: [perl #24435] setting multiple blank references using multipliers ties them together by Mark Jason Dominus