Safe issue

gh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Code I'm now responsible for (not written by me) isn't working after upgrading Perl. I've boiled the discrepancy down to this snippet:

use Safe; my $safe = new Safe; \&{"Safe::Root0::xxx"};

Under Perl 5.14.2, this generates an error; under 5.18.2, it does not. Safe 2.29 vs. 2.35 doesn't seem to matter, and dependencies seem identical. Does anyone know if something's changed in Perl itself to cause this?

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Re: Safe issue by wjw (Priest) on Apr 26, 2014 at 05:59 UTC
This might explain it? Bug Report ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it... Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... wjw	[reply]
Re^2: Safe issue by gh (Initiate) on Apr 28, 2014 at 19:30 UTC
Hm, that is interesting and possibly related, but it doesn't look like the same issue. The behavior I'm seeing wasn't affected on 5.14.2 when I upgraded Safe, and my snippet doesn't use any "*" syntax. I remain baffled.	[reply]