On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:55:32 -0800 "Philippe M. Chiasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reviving a somewhat old thread here, so for context, here it is, > archived: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/modperl/modperl/86483 > > Basically, I think documenting this as a feature was not such a good > idea. Who can expect that this is correct/expected behaviour > > my $foo = 123; > $r->pnotes('foo' => $foo); > $foo = 456; > $r->pnotes('foo') # <== now 456 > > I understand _why_ this hapenning, but I think that if it's not a > bug, it's certainly a very strange behaviour, compared to, say $note > {foo} = $foo; I would think that the casual user would be bitten by > something like this, even though it's documented. > > Is there any good reason _not_ to make this pnotes code behave just > like a hash, and store a copy of the scalar ? I didn't know about that "feature", so I would have be completely lost if I had run into personally. I agree it should be changed and behave as you would expect it to. The only downside I can think of is that it will break anyone who is taking advantage of it. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org --------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
