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On Sun Nov 28 12:15:12 2010, sprout wrote:
> On Sun Nov 21 22:25:19 2010, sprout wrote:
> > On Sun Nov 21 18:50:56 2010, schmorp@schmorp.de wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 06:38:20PM -0800, Father Chrysostomos via RT
> > > <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> > > > Sorry, I was not clear enough. If tie $self is changed to tie *$self
> > > and
> > > > tied ${...} is changed to tied *{...}, it will work in blead and in
> > > > older perls.
> > > >
> > > > The problem is that in older perls there is no way to see whether a
> > > > scalar is tied if a glob has been assigned to it. I thought that was
> > > a
> > > > bug, so I ‘fixed’ it.
> > > >
> > > > I’m hoping you will consider it a bug, too.
> > >
> > > Well, whether that is a bug or not doesn't really have anything to do
> > > with
> > > the code, as the code doesn't rely on that bug directly.
> > >
> > > The important question for me would be how much code breaks, and
> > > whether
> > > this change in behaviour warrants a depreciation.
> > >
> > > Maybe I am a burned child, but it seems every major perl release
> > > breaks
> > > some of my modules (and often even when following documentation), so
> > > I'd
> > > appreciate if perl gave more choice and more (not longer) depreciation
> > > periods.
> >
> > How about I revert it and add a ‘Use of tie on a handle without * is
> > deprecated’ warning?
>
> How about this patch (plus a perldiag entry)? These three commits will
> need to be reverted first:
>
> 830748013f81bcc28d145baf4024efd1b6537704
> 9aa8b00892d81bb5e94565d3cb9841dd57b7b9cf
> 8752206e276cffe588c0932b5a9f2331640e8447
>
> Since this is a run-time check, I could not make it warn once per op. So
> it warns once per GV.
Now done as:
84b9ac853508aaff52254b6cf2b95a2a6783ff00
7850f4d6b732ab5f426cd3bcd9757c70a46cfda1
b029825916bf29623e00b45fa4226fab0d52d217
6cd32d3b3481cbe3a38da6bbdf70e01ffe99d05a
7c7df8124bbdd7a0091f8ed82589548c8182f624
5609d5f90089ffe65a35ff268181e98d43914790
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