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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:18:59PM -0500, bulk88 wrote:
> In commit "SAVEt_CLEARSV: simplify SvREADONLY_off() condition" http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d263c0173f6ababa6791fd24914c3a92725ce5f0
> you mentioned "SAVEt_CLEARSV should always be called with SvPADMY()
> true, so don't test for it, but assert it instead.", does that means
> SAVECLEARSV has no use outside of core? It can't be used on a perl
> stack SV or AV slice now?
It never could. I suspect you're thinking of SAVEt_SV, which is the
internal implementation of 'local $a[1]' etc, and which is unaffected.
SAVEt_CLEARSV is specifically for acting upon lexical vars when they go
out of scope.
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