Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from February 2007
At 01:12 PM 2/6/2007, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>As you've all clearly demonstrated that you care about Perl 5 development,
>would you all be so kind as to download this snapshot, install it on your
>development servers, test it with your production code, and report any
>issues. I'd be grateful for reports of regressions against 5.8.x, as I tend
>to find them easier to fix before the release :-)
>
> http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-30145.tar.bz2
I've isolated the cause of the Tk test failure I reported to
you. Tk/Trace.pm line 89 contains the line
foreach my $aref ( reverse @$call[ 1 .. $#{@$call} ] ) {
in Tk::Trace::store(). The construct $#{@$ref} is evaluated
differently in perl5.8.8 and your snapshot:
$ perl5.8.8 -le '$x = [3..5]; print $#{@$x}'
2
$ perl-30145 -le '$x = [3..5]; print $#{@$x}'
-1
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.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
http://www.perlmedic.com/