steve at fisharerojo
May 21, 2008, 7:01 AM
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Steve Peters via RT
<perlbug-followup[at]perl.org> wrote:
> On Thu Jun 01 23:43:29 2000, simon[at]deep-dark-truthful-mirror.perlhacker.org wrote:
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>> This is a bug report for perl from simon[at]brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens),
>> generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
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>> [Please enter your report here]
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>> Noted by Arnar Hrafnkelsonn:
>> % perl -e 'open(A, "/dev/null"); $bizarre = ${*A{IO}}'
>> Bizarre copy of UNKNOWN in sassign at -e line 1.
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>> I'll look into this soon. But, man, that's weird.
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> In Perl 5.10, we get a new error message.
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> [steve[at]kirk ~]$ perl -e 'open(A, "/dev/null"); $bizarre = ${*A{IO}}'
> Not a SCALAR reference at -e line 1.
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Well, the changed error in Perl 5.10 seems to be planned. It was
fixed in change #27179.
It has been added to Perl 5.10, but I would guess that the change is
minor enough for Perl 5.8. Any objections?
Steve Peters
steve[at]fisharerojo.org
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