Re: Previously unseen error in connection with -X functions

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Re^2: Previously unseen error in connection with -X functions
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 31, 2008 at 12:05 UTC

I personally believe this is great news. I actually ignored that readpipe is the beast behind qw. Anyway, to quote from the post you linked to:

The prototype of readpipe() is now ($). Previously, it was broken:
$ perl5.8.8 -wle 'print prototype"CORE::readpipe"'
Can't find an opnumber for "readpipe" at -e line 1.
$ bleadperl -wle 'print prototype"CORE::readpipe"'
$
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So an immediate observation is that -X are still "broken" (in Gabriel's own words, which thus I will take for absolutely true, and literally!) in 5.10.0 and I don't have the slightest idea in blead. Furthermore, I don't have the slightest idea of which is the beast behind them: if you check the rest of the thread @ clpmisc then you'll see that I tried with stat but evidence is it's not what "I" (actually, I'm just trying to help someone, but the matter became intriguing for me too...) was after:


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