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demerphq
Date:
June 4, 2013 05:44
Subject:
Re: [perl #117299] keys are readonly in perl 5.14.2!
Message ID:
CANgJU+U0idPSepQQfUvRbpMhf6Xk5Bg2uHEQB1ecqTa-oTNOHA@mail.gmail.com
The point I refer to is that you made read-only keys no longer have
the read only flag set.

This means that old code that tests for read-onlyness will mindlessly
modify read only data structures, which is an unacceptable failure
mode.

How it affected HTML::Entities is just a symptom of a dangerous
non-backwards compatible change that cannot persist in 5.20.

So, what did you do to address this issue so that this ticket can be closed?

On 4 June 2013 07:38, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is the original problem resolved?
>
> I am reopening this ticket as it has no information on why it was
> resolved and what the solution was.
>
> Please dont close tickets without an explanation.
>
> Thanks,
> Yves
>
> On 4 June 2013 03:26, Father Chrysostomos via RT
> <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
>> On Fri Mar 22 10:18:45 2013, demerphq wrote:
>>> On 22 March 2013 18:01, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:58 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> Ah. I see. So the bug is in HTML::Entities.
>> ...
>>> I filed this ticket with the distro:
>>>
>>> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84144
>>
>> That ticket is resolved, so I am resolving this one, too.  Please say
>> something if this resolution is premature.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Father Chrysostomos
>>
>
>
>
> --
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