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[perl #109146] 3-arg open of undef for read

From:
Father Chrysostomos via RT
Date:
January 27, 2012 12:46
Subject:
[perl #109146] 3-arg open of undef for read
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-14510-1327697201-1132.109146-15-0@perl.org
On Fri Jan 27 03:31:29 2012, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >I think that a comprehensive fix should be possible. Note that XS can
tell
> >the difference:
> 
> Better to distinguish at compile time.  Literal "undef" is a different
> opcode from "$undefined" or "$hash{typoed_key}".

Please don’t add more special-cased parsing to open().  It’s complex
enough already.  Also, your proposal is not backward-compatible.

-- 

Father Chrysostomos


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