On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:20:11PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > Interesting. Worrisome.
> > 
> > I presume the intent of TARGET is to save overhead of allocating scalars.
> > As the problem seems to be endemic, is the solution to create a new function
> > (er, or macro) that clears all state, and use that in place of things like 
> > the
> > piecemeal utf8 flag clearing.
> 
> Yuk.

Yuk is my suggestion? Or yuk is the possibility of an endemic bug?

> Just as a quick 'what if' test, I tried adding SvOK_off() to dTARGET
> and it immediately fell over, eg

> So I presume we'd have to to it on a case-by-case basis.

Bah. That's worse than a single class of bug.

Nicholas Clark

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