Re^2: upgrade to 5.8.4 breaks code -- how to fix?

Thanks, davido and Corion, for the help! Corion's workaround does indeed fix the problem for me. I'd be interested in having the experience of reporting the bug, but what's the correct way to do it -- dash off an e-mail to Larry Wall, or is there a bugzilla or a mailing list or something? Corion clearly has more Perl-fu than I do, so if Corion wants to handle the bug report instead of me, that's fine too.

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Re^3: upgrade to 5.8.4 breaks code -- how to fix? by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 05, 2004 at 16:33 UTC
The proper way to go about reporting a bug (possibly after having verified it with other people, as you did) is to run `perlbug`, and type/paste in your bug report. Note that I didn't check http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ for a possible duplicate, so your bug report might duplicate some already existing open bug report. So, in your case, do that, paste in your snippet, or better the oneliner snippet I used, add some description of what you expected to happen, and what happened, and add the link to the root node here for further reference. `perlbug` will then send a mail to the perl5-porters mailing list in your name, and a bug ticket on `http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/` will also be created automagically. If all goes well, you'll either hear back directly from somebody who fixed your bug or you'll find it fixed in Perl 5.8.6 ...	[reply]
Re^4: upgrade to 5.8.4 breaks code -- how to fix? by bcrowell2 (Friar) on Jun 05, 2004 at 16:38 UTC
Thanks for the info, Corion! I'll go ahead and report the bug.	[reply]