On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:46:09PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> Hi, heros of the makemakaeology,
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 03:14:21 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > <Schwern> Here's a hint: MM_Unix is SelfLoaded
> > <DrMath> Shit, I don't know much about SelfLoading.
> > <Schwern> But I'd turned it off because it makes things hard to debug.
> > <DrMath> right.
>
> Right. I always turned it off during development and turned it on
> again for shipping. My then 166 MHz laptop would have been fast
> enough, but the VMS people were suffering from the slow MakeMaker and
> enjoyed the quicker Self- or Autoloaded one.
I'll have to figure out some way to get them to propagate pragmas.
Maybe something as simple as:
use SelfLoader qw(strict);
> > <Schwern> merlyn spotted it
> > <Schwern> $ perl -wle '"MM"->{FOO} = 42; print $MM{FOO}'
> > <Schwern> 42
> > <DrMath> Jesus. I guess that's why we use strict.
> > <Schwern> So now what I really, really, really, really, really, really hope is
>that this is a bug and not a feature.
>
>
> You have my vote for bug.
Yay! That's 39893 votes for bug, 0 for feature.
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