[perl #29070] Deparsing v-string operands to ~ loses the ~

On Thu Jul 26 05:08:19 2007, jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:
> Better to patch
> B::Deparse to make an effort to see whether the original string
> representation
> is still valid (though I have this vague memory that code in toke.c is
> not part
> of the public API, and hence is not available to use here).

It’s not just B::Deparse, but the version module, too, that is affected:

$ ./perl -Ilib -le 'print version->new(~v165);
v165

And constant folding is not where the problem lies:

$ ./perl -Ilib -le 'print new version ~$_ for "\xce", v2, "\xcc"'
1
v2
3


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Father Chrysostomos


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