Whatever came of the "Can't upgrade that kind of scalar" errors with DBIx::Recordset and perl 5.8?
Did you ask the perl core guys what they wanted to do with it?
I posted to the core maintenance folks. I haven't been tracking it lately, however the conclusion appeared to be that the fix was going to require a binary incompatibility, which meant that it couldn't appear in any 5.8 release. (The return structure isn't big enough to hold the necessary information.) At the time they were talking about putting it into a 5.9 release. I know that 5.9.1 is out in beta right now, I don't know if that particular fix is however.
(I'm wondering whether the current "using globref as both arrayref and hashref" approach has a future at all..)
I believe so. Nobody appeared to be arguing for discarding the ability to return a glob. The conversation could have turned elsewhere, but if so I wasn't cc'd.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse/perl5-porters?query=nazgul%40somewhere.com&errors=0&case=on&maxfiles=100&maxlines=30
I just tried searching the bug database, but I don't have a ticket number for it and couldn't turn it up under anything quickly.
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