in reply to Possible bug in SelfLoader?

It's not a bug in the regular expression for SelfLoader - it's an undocumented requirement (which could be considered a documentation bug).

The regex used requires that the sub declaration be anchored to the left column. I personally don't see a reason to do it that way and not allow optional whitespace between the '^' and 'sub' - maybe you should open a request at http://rt.cpan.org and/or email the author?

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Re^2: Possible bug in SelfLoader? (no leading whitespace)
by tye (Sage) on Feb 17, 2005 at 19:52 UTC

    I'd actually keep the no-whitespace requirement considering such simple problems like: 

        eval q{
        sub foo1 { ... }
    );
    print <<END;
        You'll need to define your method like:
        sub myMethod { ... }
END
use strict;
{
    my $static;
    sub usesStatic {
        # Note that this routine fails if it
        # gets moved out of this lexical scope.
        return $static;
    }
}

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    It isn't perfect, but I find the no-whitespace requirement much saner.

    - tye        

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