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On Sat Jan 14 00:58:12 2012, sprout wrote: > On Thu Jan 12 13:30:10 2012, sprout wrote: > > Except that can’t really work either, because what would -r -t do? > > After all, -t doesn’t *set* the stat buffer, either. > > > > I propose we make stacked -t an error in 5.16. It has never worked, > > it’s not clear how it should work, and if we try to make it do something > > illogical we’ll be stuck ‘supporting’ that behaviour. > > > > But maybe later we could make -t work with _. I was about to make stacked -t a compile time error, when I realised that it would break objects with -X overloading, which currently *do* work with stacked -t. So I realised the real problem: When overloading is not present, the -r in -r -w foo uses _. When overloading is present, -w arranges for -r to receive the same argument. So it only makes sense to me to use the latter mechanism for stacked -t. Using the former still makes sense for other filetest operators, because -r -w foo should only do one stat, not two. (Is anybody reading this?) -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77388Thread Previous | Thread Next