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Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected

InfiniteSilence — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:24:08 +0000

So I write a response to this blogs.perl.org post titled, 'Who Tests the Tester? Me!!!...

parentheses missing in action

Anonymous Monk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:15:21 +0000

I'm using autodie so this seemed reasonable: open my $pipe, $cmds; But perl warns: Parentheses missing around "my" list at ... It works but it warns and I know why. All o...

Re^2: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected

InfiniteSilence — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:49:12 +0000

This error is just too easy to make. I used to use h2xs but it creates so much stuff that I avoid using it. I was at a Perl conference where one of the Stonehenge presenters used a 'new' tool to ...

Re: Perl Inheritance Not Working as Expected

Fletch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:02:23 +0000

If you check the new in the FakeTuple it's using the one arg'd version of bless which as noted in the documentation for same isn't inheritable. The constructor should be using the...

Re: parentheses missing in action

Corion — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:54:24 +0000

See https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24378, which discusses the heuristic....

Re^3: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule (FATAL warnings)

LanX — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:02:54 +0000

So the TL;DR version is you wrote my $int - $1; instead of my $int = $1; and didn't notice the warnings. ;-) > (It is unfortunate ...

Re^2: Interpolate variable into regexp at time of definition rather than execution, as a filter for Path::Iterator::Rule

ecm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:03:59 +0000

Thank you, it was indeed an error on my part. I originally used $1 in the filter's regexp which does generate a similar error message (that was part of what misled me later). I also pruned a test c...