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and subject line libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl: Annoying 0+ overload on
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet - closing
has caused the Debian Bug report #213231,
regarding libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl: Annoying 0+ overload on
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet
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Package: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
Version: 0.26.02-1
Severity: normal
For some reason, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet overloads numeric
conversion (0+), which is the kind of thing that easily confuses the
programmer who's up at 3am fixing bugs, and wondering why this doesn't
work:
my $sheet = $book->Worksheet(0) or die ...;
Worksheet does indeed return a valid Worksheet object, but it is
converted to its index (in this case, 0) in boolean context.
I don't know if the author really needs this, er, feature, but I think
most Perl programmers would naturally apply the "do or die" construct to
any function that returns either an object or undef. Having it fail
like this is *very* confusing.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux toroia 2.4.21 #4 Mon Jun 23 21:39:45 EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA
Versions of packages libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl depends on:
ii libole-storage-lite-perl 0.11-1 Perl5 module with Simple Class for
ii perl 5.8.0-21 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some
years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this
problem, please feel free to re-open it.
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