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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 01:36:06PM -0400, bulk88 wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > Yes. It's always going to be possible for people to use (or write) code > > to mess with the internals, such as reference counts. > > > > But I'm really not convinced that we should be offering documented functions > > in the default installation which offer such dangerous direct unguarded > > access to the internals. If people want to live dangerously, they should > > at least have to install an appropriate module from CPAN. > > > > Nicholas Clark > > The refcount checkers from Perl lang are useful to prove in a test that > a leak was fixed. Agree, in that I could see that the perl core is reading reference counts in tests to check them. But not changing them. I went for a look with grep.cpan.me, and as far as I can tell the pretty much only place doing this in tests is the perl core. But the core doesn't need to install self-test infrastructure, just to have it available during testing. (That's not an argument that everything must change. Just a thought that things are not as constrained as they might seem) Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next