On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:32:24PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> Ian Brayshaw wrote:
> > it's the internal workings of require that stop the tie
> > from being honoured. I presume that the require burrows
> > down into the internals and isn't aware that it's a tie'd
> > handle. As far as I can tell the code within the require
> > call is unaware that this handle is an object. If you place
> > an AUTOLOAD method in TrueHandle instead of the READ and
> > READLINE methods, only DESTROY is called.
>
> Did you tell p5p about this? Perhaps they can do something about it, if they
> consider this a bug.
Having looked at the implementation yesterday, I pity the person
who's *so* certain it's a bug that they try and fix it. It would
not be an easy thing to do, I don't think. (Anyway, PerlIO layers
will save us all!)
.robin.
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