Hello, I have a wierd bug-like behavior that crops up when I use CGI and typed lexicals in a loop construction. Here is a bit of code that brings about the problem: 
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use CGI;
  package WeirdBugObject;
  use fields qw{weird bug object};
  sub new{
    return fields::new(shift);
  }

  package main;
  my @params=CGI::param();
  my $wbArrayRef=[WeirdBugObject->new(),WeirdBugObject->new()];
  foreach my WeirdBugObject $wbo (@$wbArrayRef){print(ref($wbo),"\n");
+}

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The error I get is:
  CGI::read_from_cmdline: Can't declare class for non-scalar @words in
+ "my" at testWeirdBug.pl line 11.

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This corresponds to the line where I invoke CGI::param();

I find this puzzling since the error message refers to class @words which is not a variable in my program, but rather in CGI.pm. But even weirder is the behavior with respect to the typed lexical in the loop a few lines below. The error actually goes away if I do not use a typed lexical in line 13. For example,

foreach my $wbo (@$wbArrayRef){ print(ref($wbo),"\n");}

I got perl 5.6.0 on my workstation with CGI Version 2.93. Does anyone know if this is a bug in perl 5.6.0 or in CGI? The problem doesn't seem to happen in perl 5.8.0 with CGI version 2.89. I think I need to upgrade something, but I am not sure I want to upgrade the whole perl install yet if it is not necessary to.

I generally use fields pragma and type my lexicals.

Thanks for any help you can give!

-JonathanU

In reply to Weird behavior with CGI, typed lexicals by jonathanu

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