From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 19:56:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Re: perl@16925 X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd301675ede3c45f42fe9329d75a5b5242c6a164;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: perl@16925 Message-ID: Self-tie clarifications. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16948 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 0753508..9aeeb4c 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -3059,9 +3059,12 @@ hard-to-fix ways. As a stop-gap measure to avoid people from getting frustrated at the mysterious results (core dumps, most often) it is for now forbidden (you will get a fatal error even from an attempt). -Self-tying of globs is broken, but not disabled. +A change to self-tying of globs has caused them to be recursively +referenced (see: L). You +will now need an explicit untie to destroy a self-tied glob. This +behaviour may be fixed at a later date. -Self-tying of scalars and IO works. +Self-tying of scalars and IO thingies works. =head2 Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles