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[perl #77388] Stacked file tests with -T, -t and/or -B remove too much from the stack

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From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
January 20, 2012 14:52
Subject:
[perl #77388] Stacked file tests with -T, -t and/or -B remove too much from the stack
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-14510-1327099924-23.77388-15-0@perl.org
On Fri Jan 20 14:13:32 2012, sprout wrote:
> 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.

On the other hand, -t -r -w should still work, so -r and -w should
*always* pass the filehandle or file name through, but check the stacked
flag to see whether it should actually be used.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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