Re: Irregular expression evaluation

As pg demonstrates, you have created an inadvertent closure. This issue has come up before. I'm wondering if it might be appropriate for perl to issue a warning here. It can be a nasty bug.

-sauoq
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Re^2: Irregular expression evaluation by pg (Canon) on Oct 24, 2005 at 04:40 UTC
Fully agree with you and there better be a warning. Closure was meant to be a feature, so that people can use it when they need it (and they KNOW that they are using it). But so often people just get trapped without knowing that there is a closure in their code, and it becomes very tricky to application programmers. A warning in this case will be very helpful.	[reply]
Re^3: Irregular expression evaluation by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 24, 2005 at 07:20 UTC
dave_the_m has been working on the closure code so its quite possible this warns in blead. I know he has made improvements in that area. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]