From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:40:37PM +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote: > > [ Rearranging slightly to get your summary first ] > > > The documentation says you should not do it. Not because it would be > > that hard to say what happens (once you understand what did I say > > above), but because it would be easy to create hard to find infinite > > loops: > > There is another, more important reason. A bug was recently reported > which Dave Mitchell, one of the Perl maintainers categorised as:
Well ... I subscribe to Perl5-porters, but I'm unable to monitor it properly :-( > When the docs say "don't do that" they really mean it! :-) Agreed. > This explanation is all well and good, but of course, in internals > land things get a bit more complicated. Keep experimenting, and > you'll hit corner cases and get core dumps. > > Really, just "don't do that". You'll be glad in the end ;-) Some people don't like being just told "don't do this". They want to know why. I think that we both together provided enough "why"s :-) Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
