Hi, It crashes just as nicely on ActiveState perl on Windows (This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread). For those of you who know how to decipher Windows crash reports, I attached it. I am baffled.
Best Regards, Dov Levenglick SmartDSP OS Development Leader -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabor Szabo Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 22:37 To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] List of all contexts in Perl On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Yuval Kogman <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the context of Want it just checks if the retop operation involves a > boolean operator such that SvTRUE of the return value is the only thing ever > used. > my $foo = foo(); > if ( $foo ) { # not boolean context > > if ( foo() ) { # boolean context So I wanted to show how if ( $foo ) { is a boolean context and started to write an example: use strict; use warnings; tie my $z, 'X', 1; print $z; package X; use strict; use warnings; use Want; sub TIESCALAR { my ($class, $self) = @_; return bless \$self, $class, } sub FETCH { my ($self) = @_; print "ok" if want('BOOL'); return $$self; } the response was surprising: Segmentation fault using v5.10.1 that comes with Ubuntu 10.4 and Want 0.18 the call to 'want' generates this. Can someone with a newer version of perl confirm this? Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
