Bug #50762 for IPC-SysV: mistaken use of $[

Thu Oct 22 19:09:54 2009 zefram [...] fysh.org - Ticket created

Subject:	mistaken use of $[
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:09:32 +0100
To:	bug-IPC-SysV [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Zefram <zefram [...] fysh.org>

IPC-SysV/regen.pl contains the line if ($[ < 5.006) { This is obviously intending to examine the Perl version number, which is $]. $[ is the array index offset, which is effectively always zero. -zefram

Mon Nov 02 16:34:40 2009 mhx-perl [...] gmx.net - Correspondence added

CC:	zefram [...] fysh.org
Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #50762] mistaken use of $[
Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 2009 22:20:51 +0100
To:	bug-IPC-SysV [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl [...] gmx.net>

Hi Zefram, On 2009-10-22, at 19:09:55 -0400, Zefram via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> Thu Oct 22 19:09:54 2009: Request 50762 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by zefram@fysh.org > Queue: IPC-SysV > Subject: mistaken use of $[ > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: zefram@fysh.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50762 > > > > IPC-SysV/regen.pl contains the line > > if ($[ < 5.006) { > > This is obviously intending to examine the Perl version number, which > is $]. $[ is the array index offset, which is effectively always zero.

Thanks, you are very right. This will be fixed in the next release of IPC::SysV. Marcus

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Mon Nov 02 16:34:41 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun May 23 05:08:43 2010 MHX [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Sorry for the late reply, this was already fixed back in March with the 2.02 release of IPC::SysV. Marcus

Sun May 23 05:08:49 2010 MHX [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sun May 23 05:09:13 2010 MHX [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 2.02 added