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Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > I’m actually more worried about the existing reliance of autodie > on the contents of %^H getting stringified and thereby triggering > garbage collection. That smacks overwhelmingly strongly of an > accidental feature of the `my $foo if 0` calibre. Is that really > something people should be relying on as an interface contract?! At the moment, quite a lot of code on the CPAN relies upon this as an interface contract, including autobox, autodie, namespace::clean, and everything (19 dists) listed at: http://cpants.perl.org/dist/used_by/B-Hooks-EndOfScope So regardless of whether or not %^H triggering object destruction was an accidental or intentional feature, it's now being depended upon by a lot of code, including Catalyst::Runtime. Paul -- Paul Fenwick <pjf@perltraining.com.au> | http://perltraining.com.au/ Director of Training | Ph: +61 3 9354 6001 Perl Training Australia | Fax: +61 3 9354 2681Thread Previous | Thread Next