Casey West wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Geoffrey Young
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Geoffrey Young wrote:
>>> - undef &$fullname;
>>> + delete ${$fullname}{CODE};
>>>
>>> I swear there is some p5p history here that treats that slot differently
>>> when it's undef versus exists. IIRC an early 5.8.0 iteration broke
>>> mod_perl because of exactly this (or, if you prefer, mod_perl exposed a
>>> feature of perl that we prefer to remain ;)
> [...]
>> http://marc.info/?l=perl5-porters&m=106752791011060&w=2
>
> Geoff,
>
> Are you sure the referenced issue is the same one that line is trying
> to handle? It appears that the undef vs delete issue is related to
> loading Perl modules from disk and managing the %INC cache. The delete
> in my patch is about tearing down the stash before the package's
> reference is eliminated from %INC. I'm worried we're talking about two
> different things. Do you see what I mean?
we probably are talking about two different things. in truth, it just
looked familiar - I wasn't entirely sure about the context, which is why
I went hunting for the thread :)
--Geoff
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