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Matthew Horsfall wrote: > The commit: > > $ git show b7f7fd0bbdc7d1d714e682f9a3250ab7d97ac560 > commit b7f7fd0bbdc7d1d714e682f9a3250ab7d97ac560 > Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> > Date: Mon Mar 27 19:25:02 2006 +0000 > > If constant folding fails, don't fold constants, rather than reporting > the error at compile time. This allows illegal constant expressions in > dead code to be ignored. > > p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27615 > > Hope that helps. Thank you. All that tells me is that this particular method of bypassing constant folding did not always work. But I think the bad read was present before that with the trailing } case. In any case, this is moot at this point, since I have a local fix. It just needs a commit message.Thread Previous | Thread Next