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Re: Future Perl development

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 7, 2007 15:13
Subject:
Re: Future Perl development
Message ID:
20070207231326.GU5748@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:10:15PM -0800, Peter Scott wrote:

> The more conventional construct $#$ref is evaluated 
> identically.  $#{@$ref} seems like it ought to be illegal, but clearly 
> hasn't been hitherto, and I couldn't find anything in your changelog 
> saying it had now been outlawed.  Case referred to department of 
> backward compatibility.

It's a bug. I remember it being fixed.
My view is that Tk needs fixing. *that* could be slightly tricky.

Nicholas Clark



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