Wed Feb 20 02:15:34 2013: Request 82611 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: make tool detection broken in Win32::API
Broken in: 0.74, 0.75
Severity: Normal
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: bul...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82611 >
On Wed Feb 06 23:28:10 2013, BULKDD wrote:
> Also improve the POD for how to pass NULL, in pack letter mode (NOT
> prototype mode) for a 'P'. In prototype mode undef is NULL, but in
> letter mode, 0 is NULL. There is live code (irc conversation) that
> uses
> letter mode 0 for NULL. so dont break back compat see this old ::API
> https://github.com/bulk88/perl5-win32-
> api/blob/067439edfd8fab5bc7f18f5bfb16fe7ff7a75259
> /API.xs#L324
more todo: get public opinions for putting a "scalar(@_) >= 3 &&
scalar(@_) <= 6" sanity check on ctor new(). Reason:
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1019723 .
