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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:18:14PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:07:22PM +0100, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > > And the problem is that those bugs are not considered bugs but features. > > > > I certainly consider this one a bug. > > So fix it. It is easy to do, and I documented it years ago (during 5.6). "this one" that I was confident is a bug is the change of meaning on SvPV() And in turn what I'm not confident about is the fix. > Besides, without any doubt, the code that relies on psuedo-random > behaviour is certainkly in the minority. The amount of code in the wild > that relies on "C" having 5.5 semantics is much larger. I doubt _anybody_ > except me (or at leats not very many people) understands that he has to > downgrade scalars before passing them into unpack to decode structures. I don't know enough about "C" in pack offhand to know what the right thing to do is. I don't like anything Perl space that lets the abstraction leak, and "C" is one of them. The third thing that you didn't mention which I consider distinct from the two behaviours you did is that the encoding effects how regexps match, and lc/uc/lcfirst/ucfirst. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next