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* Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> [2014-10-08T16:14:23]
> This exposes a bug in the way that closures are handled. (This exam-
> ple is not a closure example, but closure would exhibit the same bug
> as the principle is the same: multiple pads point to the same SV, but
> aliasing only affects one pad at a time.)
Nice bug, sir.
> If we can't fix this now, is it acceptable to introduced experimen-
> tal lvalue references with this drawback? my $a; eval { \$a = \$b }
> would be ineffective, as the aliasing would only take place in the
> eval's own pad.
I agree with what Aristotle said: yes, and probably we throw this bug in the
"blockers for non-experimentalism" list.
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rjbs
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