Re: infinite loop blues

What happens if the eval that you use for the import fails for any reason? Check $@ and see if it actually imports correctly.

If that doesn't fix it, then before your goto I would test a can to be sure that it should be found, and start debugging what package it went into, etc.

But I will bet that it is an error hidden behind eval's error trapping.

UPDATE: The reason why this is an infinite loop is that you call a method which is not there, falls into an AUTOLOAD, which calls the same method, it still is not there, falls into the same AUTOLOAD, etc.

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Re: Re: infinite loop blues
by jynx (Priest) on Jun 26, 2003 at 21:30 UTC

it was not in fact importing correctly, because of a bad method setup. In the print_forms.pm file it had up near the top something that i didn't notice until i added the following line to server.pm:

  if (eval { require $method }) {
    $method =~ s/^functions\/(.*)\.pm$/$1/;
    eval "import functions::${method}";
    die $@ if $@;     # added this, which gave me the error message i 
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So that fixed the problem, but why was it infinite looping? Why didn't it stop after one iteration?

jynx

PS i can't believe i, yet again, made the "select is broken" error. i thought i had progressed past that stage. grrr...

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