> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sat Jul 02 11:28:26 2005]:
>
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:03:42AM -0000, houstorx @ rpc142. cs. man.
> ac. uk wrote:
> > Lvalue functions don't work properly when running under the
> > debugger (perl -d). For example, the following code:
> >
> > my $x = 'badbad';
> > sub x :lvalue {$x}
> > x = "good";
> > print "The value of \$x is: $x\n";
> >
> > prints 'The value of $x is: badbad' when you run it with the
> > debugger. This happens with every version of perl that I've
> > tested, including 5.8.6 and 5.9.2.
>
> The reason is that when running under the debugger, all function calls
> are
> wrapped by a call to BD::sub, which does (in outline)
>
> if (wantarray)
> @res = &$sub;
> ...
> @res;
> }
> else {
> $res = &$sub;
> ...
> $res;
> }
>
> and of course that blows away the lvalue-ness of the value returned by
> the
> sub.
>
> Can't see an easy way op fixing it.
>
>
>
Actually, this is a old known bug. Merging this one with RT #7013.
