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Re: [perl #60472] Module Encode degrades in Perl 5.10

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demerphq
Date:
November 12, 2008 01:56
Subject:
Re: [perl #60472] Module Encode degrades in Perl 5.10
Message ID:
9b18b3110811120155l31bba5dfsadd1267adc325532@mail.gmail.com
2008/11/11 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:45:22PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
>> 2008/11/11 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>:
>
>> Should I take it that as you didn't mention the READONLY being missing
>> that you have no idea about that?
>>
>> Shouldn't they be readonly? Or am I missing something?
>
> I think that they should be, but I missed the difference in the READONLY
> flag, and have no idea about it.

Turns out that this is deliberate, as some pluggable regex engines
allow for a writable $1.

Aevar patched this in quite some time ago.

So I think at this points its a bug in Encode, but I couldn't figure
out how to fix it in the time I had available.

Yves


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