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Father Chrysostomos
Date:
May 4, 2016 16:37
Subject:
Re: revert MG consting (Coro breakage) for 5.24?
Message ID:
20160504163747.932.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> So, to do *that*, it overrides the core magic on %SIG to behave differently,
> to facilitate the way that it would like the world to be.

Which is not that hard to do even with a const magic vtable.  Just
create a custom magic vtable that mirrors the core sig vtable, except
for that one entry, and use that.  So the consting of the vtable (the
subject of this thread) is irrelevant.  (Caveat: I have not tested any
of this.)
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