Bug #65238 for Devel-StackTrace-WithLexicals: Bleadperl v5.13.8-259-g949cf49 and following broke D:ST:WL 0.08

Sat Jan 29 05:30:57 2011 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Bleadperl v5.13.8-259-g949cf49 and following broke D:ST:WL 0.08

Related ticket is https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64828 about Devel::StackTrace. Dave has since released 1.27 and fixed the issue. Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals seems to be affected similarly and maybe needs to port the fix over, I have not looked. HTH, Best Wishes!

Sat Jan 17 11:24:55 2015 chrjae [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

I'm trying Git version c311048061f0ab6253c79e4bc9c92c0ce707ba00 on perl v5.14.2 (on Debian). I guess you're talking about the problem that the values in the lexicals hashes are stringified instead of the actual objects, correct? Test case: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings FATAL => 'uninitialized'; (my $email='ch%christianjaeger,ch')=~ tr/%,/@./; use Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals; print ${ Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals->new->{raw}->[-1]->{lexicals}{'$email'} },"\n"; __END__ ./Devel_StackTrace_WithLexicals_test Can't use string ("SCALAR(0x87d43a0)") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in use at ./Devel_StackTrace_WithLexicals_test line 7.

Sat Jan 17 11:24:56 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sat Jan 17 11:55:15 2015 chrjae [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Ok, was too quick. unsafe_ref_capture => 1 is all there's needed to get the references. The questions I still have: 1. why not make Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals behave as Devel::StackTrace by default, i.e. leave stringification off? Probably because you include lexicals and hence many more references. But I don't see how you'd get circular (and hence incollectable) references because of that, as long as you don't do something like my $foo; ... ; $foo= Devel::StackTrace::WithLexicals->new (which might put a reference to $foo inside the object at $foo). As long as you don't mutate $foo after its introduction, you should be safe, I'd say. 2. should this issue here be closed, as Devel-StackTrace-WithLexicals from Github (d0ea35b4fea8599557ca33469762d772e1babb19) works fine on my perl v5.14.2 (on Debian). Thanks, Christian.