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demerphq
Date:
January 12, 2012 04:06
Subject:
Re: [perl #24237] @& doesn't set PL_sawampersand
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On 11 January 2012 17:36, Father Chrysostomos via RT
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> And BTW, I’d like to get rid of this PL_sawampersand madness (thereby
> closing about 6 RT tickets), but my first attempt failed, and my second
> attempt is awaiting a response from Nicholas Clark on the status of
> PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE.

Should I have a look?

Also if you are looking into this stuff also keep in mind that scalar
/g is still a problem, and keep in mind why my patch to fix it was
reverted (to prevent quadratic performance degradation in while (//g)
matches).

> (And that reminds me: it’s not just /p that looks to me like a bug
> workaround, but also SelectSaver.pm.)

/p was definitely a work around.

Yves

-- 
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

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