> Yeah yeah, and as we say at science fiction conventions around here,
> "Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Ensign Red-Shirt beam down to the planet
> surface. Which one isn't coming back?"
"You go first, Ensign Whatwasyournameagain. I'm certain they are friendly."
> I will take a look at this. My code is that dependant on it. But I also
> need a band-aid solution, since any patch I come up with would be months
> (at best) from making it into distribution versions of Perl (not just Red
> Hat's, but Mandrake and others).
Search the p5p archives for self-tie and you will find lots of food
for thought. IIRC the basic problem is not as much *self*-tying as
*recursive*-tying in general: if you have a circular dependency you
can't stop before you have a core dump in your lap/shoes. Ask Alan
Burlison for more information.
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