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* Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-comment@perl.org> [2012-06-14T20:56:39]
> I think the only way to fix this properly is to make *{$foo} equivalent
> to *{__PACKAGE__ ."::$foo"} in all cases where $foo is a string that
> does not contain a package separator.
>
> That means that %{""} will refer to %:: in the main package, and to
> %foo:: in the foo package.
This doesn't seem nuts to me, and I'm hard pressed to imagine it breaking any
code that is not both cowboy and cavalier... but:
a) I'd like to hear if there are objections and
b) how about we do a big ol' smoke?
If you make this change, and core doesn't break like crazy, I can even have a
look at using Steffen's smoking machinery. *Somebody* other than him has to
learn to use it!
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rjbs
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