On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:40:01PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Would the core not being able to scan back past tie/overloading/magic/etc
> be a bug that needs addressing?
I don't think so. Since the first thing that happens with tie, overload
etc is that it calls a sub, there will always be a sub context at the base
of the new context stack to be found. If it hasn't invoked a sub (eg
PERLSI_MAGIC), then it's hardly likely to be able to execute pp_wantarray.
Note that most context stack searching in Perl only searches the *current*
context stack, eg looking for labels with next or goto:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sub TIEARRAY { goto FOO }
my @a;
tie @a, 'main';
FOO:
$ perl587 /tmp/p
Can't find label FOO at /tmp/p line 3.
$
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