[perl #69208] readline setting $! on success contrary to perlfunc

On Fri Sep 25 13:19:21 2009, comdog wrote:
> I've fixed the documentation portion of this in
> 0f03d336cfac20781d0a45d83906fa559a5ecf17.

There are a number of older bugs like this, where someone is checking $! after a call that didn't fail, and is surprised when there's something silly in there. The docs now say that $! is only meaningful immediately after a failure, and in the case of readline, that means it is only meaningful after readline has returned undef.

Closing resolved.

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Respectfully,
Dan Collins

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