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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
February 2, 2015 17:23
Subject:
Re: [perl #122251] Bleadperl v5.21.1-127-g29e61fd breaksMBARBON/Module-Info-0.35.tar.gz
Message ID:
20150202172252.GT15494@iabyn.com
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:10:30PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:47:57AM -0700, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
> > On Sun Jul 13 06:45:16 2014, davem wrote:
> > > Perhaps I should add a global var to B: $B::OP::does_parent, say, which is:
> > > 
> > >     undef on older perls
> > >     0     on perls that have the parent() method but not -DPERL_OP_PARENT
> > >     1     on perls that have the parent() method and -DPERL_OP_PARENT
> > 
> > Has this happened yet?
> 
> No, its still on my TODO list

Now done with

commit c3890f9c66df165fa44ec6d4da220ab976c4d31d
Author:     David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 2 17:05:23 2015 +0000
Commit:     David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
CommitDate: Mon Feb 2 17:05:23 2015 +0000

    add $B::OP::does_parent variable
    
    This will help people write B:: code that can, in a backwards-compatible way,
    handle the parent method that has recently been added, and whose behaviour
    varies depending on whether perl was built with PERL_OP_PARENT.


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