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Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall

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Zefram
Date:
August 30, 2013 15:38
Subject:
Re: [perl #116907] perl doesn't handle m{}g for >= 2GB files evenwith largefiles and 64bitall
Message ID:
20130830153808.GB31643@fysh.org
Nicholas Clark wrote:
>I know that we've got a lot of them, but I'm not sure that I like LVALUE
>macros.

Indeed.  We've been forced to change many into get/set pairs, when a value
stopped being stored as a straightforward mutable lvalue.  We should learn
from that, and implement future macros in get/set pairs from the start.

-zefram

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