>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!)
The report has been sent. Will see what comes of it. I suspect nothing,
given the new PerlIO layers.
Thanks for your help.
Ian
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