in reply to Re: :lvalue, How I Hate Thee
in thread :lvalue, How I Hate Thee

Didn't work, as in $self->{VALUE} maintained it's original value of 'Yes', instead of being set to undef.

What version ot perl was that under?

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Re^3: :lvalue, How I Hate Thee
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 17, 2005 at 20:10 UTC

    5.8.4, but I think you're right that there is something else involved here.

    #! perl -slw use strict; package thing; sub new { bless { VALUE => 'YES' }, $_[0]; } sub value :lvalue { my $this = shift; $this->{VALUE}; } package main; print $]; my $thing = thing->new; print $thing->value; $thing->value = undef; print $thing->value; __END__ P:\test>junk2 5.008004 YES Use of uninitialized value in print at P:\test\junk2.pl line 22.

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      Worked fine for me in 5.8.2:

      5.008002
      YES
      Use of uninitialized value in print at undeftest.pl line 22.

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