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On Sun Oct 26 08:13:14 2014, sprout wrote: > On Sun Oct 26 07:24:32 2014, jkeenan wrote: > > Confirmed. ef7999f causes a compilation failure in a situation where > > 5.20.1 does not. > > > > I have translated the code in the CPAN distribution which suffered > > the > > failure into a patch to t/op/chop.t. blead will experience a syntax > > error and compilation failure when you try to run that test file. > > Thank you for the test case. You’ve saved me time. It turns out this > is an old bug in the optimisation, which I have ended up extending to > more cases: > > $ perl5.8.7 -e '(@a = split//,$_)=1' # fine > $ perl5.8.7 -e '(@a = split//,$x)=1' > Can't modify split in list assignment at -e line 1, at EOF > Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. > > Judging by the source code, it probably goes back to perl 3.0. As of commit e4e95921cd0fd085a5edf35ae358cd213529e55a, this appears to be resolved. ##### $ /home/jkeenan/gitwork/perl/perl -v |head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 21, subversion 6 (v5.21.6 (v5.21.5-117-ge4e9592)) built for x86_64-linux $ /home/jkeenan/gitwork/perl/perl -I/home/jkeenan/gitwork/perl/lib -Iblib/lib t/Finance-BankVal-UK.t \C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\C <-- HERE )/ at /home/jkeenan/perl5/lib/perl5/URI/Escape.pm line 205. 1..7 ok 1 - use Finance::BankVal::UK; ok 2 - format validation ok 3 - sort code validation ok 4 - account validation ok 5 - user id validation ok 6 - PIN validation ok 7 - PIN validation ##### -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123057Thread Next