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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:13:47 GMT, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> slaven@rezic.de wrote:
> >The test t/03-Universal-Override.t in Object-Trampoline-1.42
> >fails with 5.27.7 and 5.27.8, and was OK until 5.27.6:
>
> Bisects to commit 915a6810d3e3198d759f025f85d1fd6f3171dd27 "Carp: optimize
> format_arg when arguments contain many references". The issue is that
> the new Carp code in that commit refers to $UNIVERSAL::isa::VERSION, and
> so vivifies $UNIVERSAL::{"isa::"}. The test iterates over %UNIVERSAL::,
> using each key found as a method name, and isn't prepared for there to
> be a key that doesn't syntactically behave as a method name.
>
> The test is erroneous in using all keys it finds as method names.
> It should skip ones that aren't syntactically OK.
>
> The edit to Carp is also arguably faulty. In other areas Carp goes
> to significant effort to avoid vivifying stash entries that it doesn't
> intend to. It should probably apply similar logic in this search for
> &UNIVERSAL::isa.
>
> -zefram
Are you saying we should apply something like the patch attached?
Thank you very much.
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James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)
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