develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from July 2009

Re: Coring Variable::Magic / autodie fights with string eval inPerl 5.10.x

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
July 5, 2009 05:26
Subject:
Re: Coring Variable::Magic / autodie fights with string eval inPerl 5.10.x
Message ID:
20090705122612.GP3615@iabyn.com
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 08:36:28PM +1000, Paul Fenwick wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> G'day Vincent / everyone,
> 
> Vincent Pit wrote:
> 
> > The attached file is a drop-in replacement for B::Hooks::EndOfScope that
> > uses tie.
> 
> Using this, I am almost certain that I can sprinkle special Vincent magic
> into the dark core of autodie, and it will work.  I have a test case, and
> I'm writing code now.
> 
> On the assumption that this will work, please consider my proposal
> withdrawn, with a huge amount of thanks to Vincent.

Given the very late date of this fix, and the potential dodgyness of it
(using tie on a highly-magic "for internal use only" variable, %^H),
I'm strongly minded at this point to release 5.10.1 without autodie, then
reinstate it for 5.10.2.

-- 
The Enterprise successfully ferries an alien VIP from one place to another
without serious incident.
    -- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #7

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About