[perl #130078] getc argument list context is broken

On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 15:30:25 GMT, mauke- wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from l.mai@web.de,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.24.0.
> 
> 
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> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> $ perl -wE 'say prototype "CORE::getc"'
> ;*
> 
> getc claims to take a single (optional) scalar argument.
> 
> $ perl -wE 'sub foo (;*); foo("a", "b", "c")'
> Too many arguments for main::foo at -e line 1, near ""c")
> "
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> This is what happens when you use the same prototype on a sub.
> 
> $ perl -wE 'say getc("a", "b", "c")'
> Useless use of a constant ("a") in void context at -e line 1.
> Useless use of a constant ("b") in void context at -e line 1.
> getc() on unopened filehandle at -e line 1.
> Use of uninitialized value in say at -e line 1.
> 
> 
> This is what happens when you try it with getc: Instead of erroring
> out (too
> many arguments) it treats it as a scalar comma operator, throwing all
> but the
> last argument away.
> 
> $ perl -MO=Deparse -e 'getc(())'
> getc ARGV;
> -e syntax OK
> 
> ... unless the argument is (). Instead of evaluating it in scalar
> context (and
> getting undef), it silently replaces it by ARGV.
> 
> This is especially weird because getc is supposed to default to STDIN,
> not
> ARGV.
> 


Is this problem similar to that reported by sprout in https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93992?

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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• [perl #130078] getc argument list context is broken by James E Keenan via RT