PetaMem has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

If I deparse a file that makes use of Perl6::Export::Attrs, I get this strange error, when trying to execute/load the deparsed file: 
Internal error: missing symbol for CODE(0xeaa0a0) at /opt/perl-5.8.8/l
+ib/site_perl/5.8.8/Perl6/Export/Attrs.pm line 65.

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The deparse call is: 
perl -Ilib -MO=Deparse,-sCi0

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Is there any way to circumvent this bug, so even modules that make use of Perl6::Export::Attrs remain working after deparsing? I just started using Perl6::Export::Attrs after it was glorified in PBP... Thanks for your insights.

update:

same problem with perl-5.10.0 (Deparse output is identical)

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 PetaMem     All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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Re: B::Deparse has a problem with Perl6::Export:Attrs?
by stvn (Monsignor) on Jan 18, 2008 at 15:33 UTC

    From the looks of the internals of Perl6::Export::Attrs it would likely not survive a deparse/reload, there is just too much funky stuff going on (symbol table hackery, attributes, etc). B::Deparse itself is pretty fragile, and doesn't handle closures which is perhaps what your issue is, but it's hard to say for sure.

    -stvn
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      Thought so. Unfortunately the same seems to apply to Class::Std, which we also use more often since PBP rules here...

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       PetaMem           All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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        Unfortunately the same seems to apply to Class::Std, which we also use more often since PBP rules here

        You might want to try to get away from Class::Std, as I pointed out here, Class::Std has 56 outstanding Bugs some over 2 years old and many which are quite serious. And it also seems to be no longer maintained (last upload was Feb. 2006). Again, with all due respect to TheDamian, Class::Std is starting to look like abandonware to me.

        Of course I am going to recommend Moose as a replacement, but I am a little biased on that. Of course Moose classes won't survive a deparse either, but we have MooseX::Storage for that. Also work is currently being done on an optimizing compiler for Moose part of which is a mechanism for storing metaclass objects on disk, and since a metaclass is nothing but an object which models a class, that is pretty close to a "deparsed class".

        -stvn
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