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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-04-27 06:03:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2003-04-27 06:03:48 +0000 |
| commit | 13cd91152e7bdb516cdbab439bbb14bf630eda75 (patch) | |
| tree | 2cc403d84e80e7662a2df2127329ea1cdecffc95 /lib/Hash | |
| parent | 34c3c4e3c36afb477dacf54a0d4557360c741870 (diff) | |
| download | perl-13cd91152e7bdb516cdbab439bbb14bf630eda75.tar.gz | |
Document that restricted hashes are not atomic
(from Dave Mitchell).
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19346
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Hash')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Hash/Util.pm | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Hash/Util.pm b/lib/Hash/Util.pm index 90a8e5aaa5..c7350f6593 100644 --- a/lib/Hash/Util.pm +++ b/lib/Hash/Util.pm @@ -178,6 +178,15 @@ sub unlock_hash (\%) { =back +=head1 CAVEATS + +Note that the trapping of the restricted operations is not atomic: +for example + + eval { %hash = (illegal_key => 1) } + +leaves the C<%hash> empty rather than with its original contents. + =head1 AUTHOR Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> on top of code by Nick |