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Id: 81878
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: CGI
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: PETDANCE [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 3.63
Fixed in: (no value)
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  Tue Dec 11 00:48:02 2012 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Helper functions eat first argument if it is "CGI"
If I call: use CGI qw( :standard ); print p( 'CGI', 'is', 'fun' ), "\n"; I get: <p>is fun</p> But if I call it method style: use CGI qw( :standard ); my $q = CGI->new; print $q->p( 'CGI', 'is', 'fun' ), "\n"; I get: <p>CGI is fun</p> I'm assuming this applies to all the helper functions. I tried li(), p() and td().
  Tue Dec 11 00:50:11 2012 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Here's my output of this program: Version=3.63 First word "CGI" eaten with function form <li>I like CGI</li> <li>is fun</li> <p>is fun</p> First word "CGI" displays correctly with method form <li>I like CGI</li> <li>CGI is fun</li> <p>CGI is fun</p>
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  Tue Dec 11 09:34:31 2012 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Thanks for the report, Andy. A patch would be welcome. Otherwise, the HTML generation code in CGI.pm is not being actively supported.
  Tue Dec 11 09:34:32 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Dec 11 11:20:26 2012 LDS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Sadly, the helper functions were written to be called like this: CGI->p('CGI is fun') When they are exported, they cannot distinguish between CGI->p() form and bare p() form. There is no easy fix for this. Lincoln
  Thu May 22 08:16:19 2014 LEEJO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This issue has been copied to: https://github.com/leejo/CGI.pm/issues/108 please take all future correspondence there. This ticket will remain open but please do not reply here. This ticket will be closed when the github issue is dealt with.
  Fri Jul 11 10:03:53 2014 LEEJO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Rejecting as per Lincoln's comment. I'm not accepting any feature requests, patches, or updates to the HTML generating functions of CGI.pm unless they are of a critical nature (i.e. fixing fundamentally broken HTML output).
  Fri Jul 11 10:03:54 2014 LEEJO [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'