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Id: 15326
Status: resolved
Worked: 1 hour (60 min)
Priority: 0/
Queue: Readonly
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Owner: eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com
Requestors: jamesr [...] tierra.net
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 1.03
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Wed Oct 26 16:39:34 2005 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: strange bug with & variable in perl 5.8.6
the simple perl script: use Readonly; Readonly my $test => ' '; print "$test$test\n"; displays:  p; for perl vesions 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 although it appears to work correctly for 5.8.5
  Wed Oct 26 16:40:43 2005 Guest - Correspondence added
[guest - Wed Oct 26 16:39:34 2005]: Show quoted text
> the simple perl script: > > use Readonly; > Readonly my $test => ' '; > print "$test$test\n"; > > displays: > ' p;' > > for perl vesions 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 although it appears to work correctly > for 5.8.5
  Wed Oct 26 16:44:27 2005 Guest - Correspondence added
The string in my constant is &_n_b_s_p_; without the underscores. My browser at least annoyingly interprets that and doesn't display the literal in the bug report.
  Wed Oct 26 16:54:38 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
This is really quite interesting! "$test$test" is broken, but "$test $test" or "$test-$test" isn't. I will definitely dig into it. Thanks for reporting the problem! Eric
  Wed Oct 26 16:54:39 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Oct 26 17:36:09 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added 30 min
Appears to be a bug in perl itself. The same behavior happens with this trivial program: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; package TieTest; sub TIESCALAR {return bless {} } sub FETCH {return 'test' } package main; tie my $test, 'TieTest'; print "$test$test"; print "$test $test"; I will report this as a perl bug.
  Wed Oct 26 17:36:10 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Given to ROODE
  Tue Nov 22 21:57:49 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - TimeWorked changed from '30' to '60'
  Tue Nov 22 22:00:07 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
This is due to a bug, apparently in all versions of perl 5.8.x, relating to tied scalars. This has been reported via perlbug, and is ticket number 37731.
  Tue Nov 22 22:00:08 2005 eric.roode.cpan [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'