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[perl #92728] pragma open handles STDERR improperly

From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
September 15, 2011 21:36
Subject:
[perl #92728] pragma open handles STDERR improperly
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-31297-1316147769-618.92728-14-0@perl.org
On Mon Sep 12 02:50:31 2011, paul@pjcj.net wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 06:22:55PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos via RT
wrote:
> 
> > autodie is completely broken, as it does not propagate pragmata, and
> > changes the parsing of anything with a * prototype.
> > 
> > If it were re-implemented in XS, it would probably take much much less
> > code, and it would be almost bug-free.
> 
> If someone /were/ to undertake such a task, I would *really* like to see
> autodie work with filehandles that are automatically closed, whether by
> going out of scope or for some other reason.
> 
> (And if it's not quite backwards compatible, we can even give it a decent
> name.  *Ducks*)

Like Fatal, perhaps?





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