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On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 06:12:03PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Answer: When it has no GP. > > When does occur? Is it possible to eliminate this exceptional case? (There is code all over the place to deal with it.) I'm not sure what they are used for now. They were being used to store PVBMs, but I a month or two ago I "fixed" that that PVBMs are now stored as PVMGs. They were used in pads, but they don't seem to be now. (I think that only SVt_PVNVs and SVt_PVMGs are used now) IIRC they're not used to store stringified globs, thanks to sv_unglob() being used to convert SVt_PVGV to SVt_PVMG. I'm not sure *if* there are even exceptional cases now. If there are, it would be good to eliminate them. I thought that PVLVs have to be a superclass of PVGVs, as LVALUEs can refer to globs. Given that LVALUEs have to be able to refer to more regular scalar types, doesn't this still mean that some glob-related complexity has to remain, even if it's only for SVt_PVLV Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next