in reply to Re: s-Operator in Perl 5.8.0
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Dave, please could you update your node with a small excerpt from the relevant documentation?

Thanks

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Re^3: s-Operator in Perl 5.8.0
by hv (Prior) on Sep 01, 2004 at 11:40 UTC

    Here are some related references in the perlbug database: [perl #17605], [perl #19545], [perl #23227].

    The first of those includes the analysis and fix: at a certain point a bug was introduced that broke any attempt to execute an empty sub, via eval or otherwise. In the worst cases this would cause a coredump.

    Hugo

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Re^3: s-Operator in Perl 5.8.0
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Sep 01, 2004 at 10:36 UTC
    Er, there is no relevant documentation

    Dave.

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