On Sat Jun 29 08:06:12 2013, jkeenan wrote: > Your fourth call is not equivalent to your third call. There's no '//' > operator imposing a context on $array[-1]. Perl looks at that variable > directly and notes that it runs afoul of the error condition described > above. You're asking for $array[-1] to spring to life. I'm sure that > there are others who can explain better than I can why we treat that as > a fatal error -- but fatal it is nonetheless. Whether this is a bug or no, it is certainly surprising--and fixable. It’s just a matter of tweaking the defer logic in pp_aelem. Then rvalue uses of $_[0] within the function will just work, but assignment to $_[0] will croak with the same error (i.e., the error will be delayed as long as possible). -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=118691Thread Previous | Thread Next