On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:07:48PM -0700, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Philippe M . Chiasson wrote:
>
> > Well, sounds more like a perl "bonus undocumented feature" to me. I don't
> > see why FETCH shouldn't be able to use wantarray() and return whatever it
> > wants.... Or am I missing something here ?
>
> $foo = $bar{baz}; where %bar is tied goes something like:
> Perl_pp_helem()
> Perl_mg_get()
> Perl_magic_getpack()
> S_magic_methpack(), which does:
> if (magic_methcall(sv, mg, meth, G_SCALAR, 2, NULL)) {
> ^^^^^^^^
Shouldn't it do something like....
if (magic_methcall(sv, mg, meth, GIMME_V, 2, NULL)) {
^^^^^^^
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