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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:02:32PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > The same is true for many XS modules: in older versions of perl, SvPV gave > you the 8-bit version of a scalar, but in current versions, it randomly > gives you either 8-bit or utf-8 encoded. SvPV was renamed to SvPVbyte. > > Both of those gratitiously backwards-incompatible changes break lots of > existing code. > > And the problem is that those bugs are not considered bugs but features. I certainly consider this one a bug. I didn't create the release that messed this up, and didn't realise the implications of the change until some time after it happened. You might consider me slow for this. > I wonder why it is ok to break large amounts of perl and xs code silently, > without even documenting how to fix it[1], while at the same time 5.10 > introduced "use feature" to shield against possible breakage with far less of > an impact then the changes above. Problem is now that I can't see how to fix it without breaking other code that plays by the different, new, rules. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next