On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:15:49PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 04:04 PM, Tim Bunce wrote: > > >Perl 5.8.0 is (quite reasonably) clearing refs in lexical variables > >in a more timely manner when the sub exists. > > > >The failing test in 07kids.t isn't testing anything significant > >so I've just replaced it with a comment: > > > > # Testing $dbh->{Kids} here is unstable because we would be > >relying on > > # when perl chooses to call DESTROY the lexical $sth created > >within prepare() > > # The HandleError sub doesn't get called until the do() is > >returning > > # and recent perl's (>=5.8.0) have destroyed the handle by then > >(quite reasonably). > > > > # When a HandleEvent attribute gets added to the DBI then we'll > >probably call that > > # at the moment the error is registered, and so we could test > >$sth->{Kids} then. > > Ah, how interesting. Makes sense. > > Um, what is HandleEvent? Have you described it somewhere?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=HandleEvent+Bunce Tim.