Bug #71205 for Devel-REPL: Strange "no arguments" error with method signature modules

Sat Sep 24 15:28:56 2011 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Strange "no arguments" error with method signature modules

With #65726 fixed, I can now use method signatures in re.pl. Yay! This reveals a new bug. Boo! $ use MooseX::Method::Signatures; $ method empty {} No arguments! at /Users/schwern/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.1/lib/site_perl/5.14.1/Devel/REPL/Plugin/DDS.pm line 17 Error! - Can't use string ("1") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /Users/schwern/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.1/lib/site_perl/5.14.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Data/Dump/Streamer.pm line 1423. The error does not effect the code, empty() is defined. I presume it's trying to display the return value of the "method empty {}" statement and being confused by some trick or another. This occurs with all the method signatures modules I tried: perl5i, MooseX::Method::Signatures and Method::Signatures.

Sat Sep 24 22:05:16 2011 DOY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This is actually an issue with returning nothing in general: $ () No arguments! at /home/doy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1/lib/site_perl/5.10.1/Devel/REPL/Plugin/DDS.pm line 17 Error! - Can't use string ("1") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /home/doy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.10.1/lib/site_perl/5.10.1/x86_64-linux/Data/Dump/Streamer.pm line 1363. I have this fixed along with some other things at my github (http://github.com/doy/devel-repl - the fix for this issue in particular is 14f29f9). I didn't push it to the main repository because I wanted to discuss the changes with the other maintainers, but got distracted. People can feel free to pull whatever from there if they want to do another release.

Sat Sep 24 22:05:18 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Sep 27 21:50:01 2011 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Awesome, thanks for the investigation and patching. FWIW this isn't a high priority problem, I can happily wait for the next release cycle.

Fri May 24 06:07:18 2013 ash_rtcpan [...] firemirror.com - Correspondence added

Just pushed a fix to the git repo. Only 2 years after the initial report :)

Fri May 24 06:07:20 2013 ash_rtcpan [...] firemirror.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Fri May 24 06:10:01 2013 ash_rtcpan [...] firemirror.com - Correspondence added

On Fri May 24 06:07:18 2013, ASH wrote: Show quoted text

> Just pushed a fix to the git repo. Only 2 years after the initial report :)

As commit 882e1d1.

Thu Jun 27 18:40:44 2013 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

thanks -- released in v1.003019!

Thu Jun 27 18:40:46 2013 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'