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ikegami at adaelis

Nov 20, 2009, 7:21 PM

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PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem

Is PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem vestigial? I can't find where that type of magic is
added.

ikegami at adaelis

Nov 20, 2009, 7:56 PM

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Re: PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Eric Brine <ikegami [at] adaelis> wrote:

> Is PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem vestigial? I can't find where that type of magic is
> added.
>

aha! It's derived using toLOWER(mg->mg_type).

ben at morrow

Nov 20, 2009, 8:03 PM

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Re: PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem [In reply to]

Quoth ikegami [at] adaelis (Eric Brine):
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> Is PERL_MAGIC_tiedelem vestigial? I can't find where that type of magic is
> added.

It goes on elements of tied arrays and hashes, and is put there by
mg_copy. This applies to most of the lowercase magicks that have
corresponding uppercase variants, the exception being 'U'/'u' magic.

Ben

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