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Seems that between 5.12.2 and 5.13.5, a subtle difference has started in the handling of local $@.
Take the following code in Bar.pm:
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package Bar;
sub import { local $@; die "import failed" }
1;
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in perl 5.12.2, this does *not* fail:
$ perl5.12.2 -I. -MBar -e1
$
in 5.13.5 it does:
$ perl5.13.5 -I. -MBar -e1
import failed at Bar.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
$
I'm not actually sure whether the new behaviour is the correct one or not. It feels more correct to me, as localizing $@ should not have the same effect as surrounding a scope with an eval. Or should it?
In any case, this is the reason that load.pm is failing in bleed. I'll be committing a fix to load.pm soon.
Liz
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