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Id: 18390
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: IO-Prompt
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: UVOELKER [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: v0.99.4
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Mon Mar 27 10:37:26 2006 UVOELKER [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: avoid IO::Prompt::ReturnVal?
Is IO::Prompt::ReturnVal really necessary? Can you please introduce an option to avoid it? Right now I have to force stringification, because I'm using the data with Storable (and thaw complains, because it "Cannot restore overloading on HASH(0x8773c90) (package IO::Prompt::ReturnVal) (even after a "require IO::Prompt::ReturnVal;") at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autospli t into blib/lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 366"). Thanks, bye, Uwe
  Mon Mar 27 19:43:27 2006 damian [...] conway.org - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #18390] avoid IO::Prompt::ReturnVal?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:42:58 +0900
To: bug-IO-Prompt [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Damian Conway <damian [...] conway.org>
Uwe asked: Show quoted text
> Is IO::Prompt::ReturnVal really necessary?
Yes. It's necessary to allow return values to have correct boolean vs value semantics, as well as magically autosetting $_. Show quoted text
> Can you please introduce an option to avoid it?
Sure. The attached beta provides a -raw flag that causes prompt() to return the raw text that was typed in (as a string), rather than a RetVal object. Note that you lose all the clever context sensitivity (including autosetting $_) when this option is used. Hope this helps, Damian

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  Mon Mar 27 19:43:29 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'