[perl #3314] *x{IO} bizarre copying

On Thu Jun 01 23:43:29 2000, simon@deep-dark-truthful-mirror.perlhacker.org wrote:
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> This is a bug report for perl from simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens),
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
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> Noted by Arnar Hrafnkelsonn:
> % perl -e 'open(A, "/dev/null"); $bizarre = ${*A{IO}}'
> Bizarre copy of UNKNOWN in sassign at -e line 1.
> 
> I'll look into this soon. But, man, that's weird.
> 
> 
In Perl 5.10, we get a new error message.

[steve@kirk ~]$  perl -e 'open(A, "/dev/null"); $bizarre = ${*A{IO}}'
Not a SCALAR reference at -e line 1.

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