Hi, I'm trying to research a possible bug in the standard Perl module SelfLoader. Perhaps it's not considered a bug, but it seems awfully suspect to me. I've tried this with Perl version 5.8.4 and SelfLoader 1.0904 (the most recent).

Given the following: 
package goober;
use SelfLoader;

sub goober::denote;
1;
__DATA__
sub denote {
 # denote code
}

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SelfLoader does fine. But if one were to put a tab before the "sub denote {" line, and a script that uses the package of goober attempts to run the denote subroutine, it is not found.

As the tab is just whitespace, isn't this unusual behavior? Is it possibly a bug in the regular expressions SelfLoader uses to locate the actual subroutine declarations in a module?

When I remove the tab, everything works fine again.

I appreciate any edification on this matter.

d. Taylor Singletary,
reality technician

In reply to Possible bug in SelfLoader? by techra

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