On 12 July 2010 20:30, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:06:15PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >> gvsv is just checking magic and doing the sideeffect > > Huh? gvsv doesn't call magic. > > Also, just as a data point, note that pp_concat *explicitly* calls get > magic twice on $a . $a: > > if (left == right) > /* $r.$r: do magic twice: tied might return different 2nd time */ > SvGETMAGIC(right); Id like to argue that this was misguided. I dont think we guarantee any particular order in this case for the fetch calls and thus the statement is /still/ undefined even with this change. cheers, Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next