Re: Bug in format introduced in 5.27.6

On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:49:16 +0100, "H.Merijn Brand"
<h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> perl -le '$~ = "L02"; { local $~ = "$~h"; print $~; }'

FWIW, same for
  perl -le '$~ = "L02"; { local $~ = $~."h"; print $~; }'

I had to assign $~ to a lexical for the workaround

  perl -le '$~ = "L02"; { my $f = $~; local $~ = $f."h"; print $~; }'

> up to and including perl-5.27.5, this would print "L02h"
> as of 5.27.6 this prints "h"
> 
> this breaks production code :(

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