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| author | John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> | 1997-01-30 10:16:21 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-02-04 17:47:00 +1200 |
| commit | 6adf1df6c95069d09f9538d7c0eab6948cc799c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f19c03d7f2c478b6e06a6c5c70bc78a6105105f /lib/Symbol.pm | |
| parent | 08a4aec0f8cf03ed75a2a45bbd19128b4b70440a (diff) | |
| download | perl-6adf1df6c95069d09f9538d7c0eab6948cc799c9.tar.gz | |
In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Symbol.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Symbol.pm | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Symbol.pm b/lib/Symbol.pm index 75d1dfb1fa..e40ae7b357 100644 --- a/lib/Symbol.pm +++ b/lib/Symbol.pm @@ -58,10 +58,16 @@ my $genseq = 0; my %global = map {$_ => 1} qw(ARGV ARGVOUT ENV INC SIG STDERR STDIN STDOUT); +# +# Note that we never _copy_ the glob; we just make a ref to it. +# If we did copy it, then SVf_FAKE would be set on the copy, and +# glob-specific behaviors (e.g. C<*$ref = \&func>) wouldn't work. +# sub gensym () { my $name = "GEN" . $genseq++; - local *{$genpkg . $name}; - \delete ${$genpkg}{$name}; + my $ref = \*{$genpkg . $name}; + delete $$genpkg{$name}; + $ref; } sub ungensym ($) {} |