**The following information is primarily just an FYI**
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: RE: Problem with EXE created by PerlApp
>
> From: Jason Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sorry I don't understand why this happens. Just a wild guess ...
> > > could you try to name your variable something else than $Registry?
> >
> > Didn't even dawn on me to try something like that... was
> following the
> > example listed in the docs... That took care of the
> problem! Thanks!
>
> Ack ... but when you run the script directly, without compiling it
> everything works, right ?
>
> Please send a bug report to ActiveStates via
> http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi
>
> 'Cause it looks that the $Registry that you declared lexical in your
> script leaked into the import() function in Win32::TieRegistry.
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I looked through the bug database before
submitting the bug and didn't find anything, but when I submitted it, they
said it was a duplicate of 11031 (guess I didn't look for the right thing).
Their comments on 11031 state:
"This problem happens because of a bug in Perl itself, where lexical
variables are leaking out of their lexical scope. The following program
demonstrates this bug, where the lexical $foo leaks into the safe_eval() sub
defined above it.
sub safe_eval { eval shift }
my $foo = "a";
BEGIN { safe_eval('BEGIN { $foo = "b" }') }
warn $::foo;
warn $foo;
This problem is still present in PerlApp 4.0 with ActivePerl 631."
> I can't replicate this with my version of PerlApp.
hmmm... Does that mean they should have said "This problem happens because
of a bug in ActivePerl itself"...?
Jason
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