On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 05:59:53AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > the point is, code that uses char * without looking at the flag in other > ways is simply broken, it has no defined/documentable behaviour on the > perl level. Agree. The code can't know for sure what it's getting. I'm still digesting the rest of the ideas in the thread. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next