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On Tue Apr 23 10:46:58 2013, kentfredric@gmail.com wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from kentfredric@gmail.com, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.17.11. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please describe your issue here] > > I was exploring things and discovered B::svref_2object($code)->PADLIST > > Returns an object of undocumented type 'B::PADLIST', that I can only > find > reference to in perl5174delta, and is otherwise unexplained. > > I assume it retains its previous interface ( which appears to have > been > B::AV ), in addition to its new one, but I can't tell from the Docs. > > perl5174delta hints at a list of methods it should provide, but its > hard to > know if these are "all the methods", and hard to know how > backwards-compatible it may be with previous perls. > Along the same lines, pod/perldelta.pod (i.e., the perldelta for 5.18) has this entry under Updated Modules and Pragmata: ##### L<B::Debug> has been upgraded to 1.18. This adds support (experimentally) for C<B::PADLIST>, which will be added in Perl 5.17.4. ##### Well, I wonder, was it added in 5.17.4, which was probably 8 months ago? --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117727