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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:15:49PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> David Landgren wrote:
> > That's because perl is trying to do the right thing with bad syntax.
>
> Well yes, but that's still a bug because perl ought to reject bad
> syntax! The reason it isn't rejected is that pp_rv2av will happily
> accept an AV on the stack, in lieu of an actual reference. That
> can't be changed in general, since it's relied on.
I think the problem is that that the first executed (of two) rv2av is
getting the OPf_REF flag set, when IMO it shouldn't. $#{@x} *is*
valid syntax; it should return $# of the array symbolically referred
to by @x, like this:
$ perl -we'*1 = [qw/foo bar baz/]; @x=0; print $#{0+@x}'
2
only without the 0+ being there. (If @x is lexical, then it's padav
that has the troublesome OPf_REF.)
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