Bug #5640 for X11-Protocol: $x->ReqName(...) will fail if the request returns a scalar

[marc@mit.edu - Fri Mar 12 00:14:11 2004]: Show quoted text
Thank you for a clear and accurate bug report, and for tracking down the cause of the problem. I'm going to go with a slightly different fix, though. I think that a better fix would be to move to eliminate the temporary array "@ret" and move the call to req() down to the end of the block, so that it ends in return $obj->req($name, @_); then Perl will automatically propagate the appropriate context down to req(), and in turn the sub that implements each request. This should make the AUTOLOADed versions more compatible with just calling req() directly, since many requests return something whose scalar context value isn't the first element of their list context value. (Including arrays, and lists of multiple elements. In retrospect, the scalar context returns of many requests are not the most useful ones, but I think it's too late to change them). This will be fixed in the next release, which I expect I'll make sometime in the next week or two (I'm working on some feature additions, too, which are taking a bit longer than expected). P.S. In most cases, it's more convenient to use the "atom" method, rather than InternAtom directly. You might want to give it a try, if you didn't already know about it.