Strange. I thought I replied yesterday.

I thought perl -e'sub TIESCALAR { } tie $foo, main, \$foo' would crash, but it doesn't with both 5.6.1 and 5.8.0. I'm sure it (or something similar) did crash in earlier versions, because I recall having discussed it on Magnet #perl, where several wizards said is was a known problem.

Or I had a very bad nightmare. If that is the case, I wonder how PLP::Tie::Delay escaped dreamworld :)

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }