At 09:39 PM 4/7/00 +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
>The URI module have problems because of the following behaviour
>of $1 in subroutine argument lists (@_):
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>"foobar" =~ /(o+)/;
>
>foo($1); # prints "a"
>foo("$1"); # print "oo"
>
>sub foo
>{
> "foobar" =~ /(a+)/;
> print "@_\n";
>}
>__END__
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>I get the same result with perl5.004, perl5.005 and perl5.6.0.
>I assume this is a perl bug. Is it easily fixable?
This looks related to something I reported in January (see
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-01/msg00686.html
) and Ilya explained the reason in
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-01/msg00714.html
. No-one suggested it needed fixing though.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
