From: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:31:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fix restoring of non-code symbols when cleaning.
X-Git-Tag: 0.12~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=p5sagit%2Fnamespace-clean.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=61c4bce7e7b6585613a8b01119cfe88ede232bca

Fix restoring of non-code symbols when cleaning.

Curtesy of Ben Morrows.
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diff --git a/lib/namespace/clean.pm b/lib/namespace/clean.pm
index 93ecb9f..1f370fe 100644
--- a/lib/namespace/clean.pm
+++ b/lib/namespace/clean.pm
@@ -166,15 +166,19 @@ my $RemoveSubs = sub {
         next SYMBOL if $store->{exclude}{ $f };
         no strict 'refs';
 
+        local *__tmp;
+
         # keep original value to restore non-code slots
         {   no warnings 'uninitialized';    # fix possible unimports
-            local *__tmp = *{ ${ "${cleanee}::" }{ $f } };
+            *__tmp = *{ ${ "${cleanee}::" }{ $f } };
             delete ${ "${cleanee}::" }{ $f };
         }
 
       SLOT:
-        # restore non-code slots to symbol
-        for my $t (qw( SCALAR ARRAY HASH IO FORMAT )) {
+        # restore non-code slots to symbol.
+        # omit the FORMAT slot, since perl erroneously puts it into the
+        # SCALAR slot of the new glob.
+        for my $t (qw( SCALAR ARRAY HASH IO )) {
             next SLOT unless defined *__tmp{ $t };
             *{ "${cleanee}::$f" } = *__tmp{ $t };
         }
@@ -312,6 +316,12 @@ sub get_functions {
     };
 }
 
+=head1 BUGS
+
+C<namespace::clean> will clobber any formats that have the same name as
+a deleted sub. This is due to a bug in perl that makes it impossible to
+re-assign the FORMAT ref into a new glob.
+
 =head1 IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
 
 This module works through the effect that a