Re: Inline/gtk2-perl problem solved / patch to Inline::denter.pm

[goran kirra net]

Guillaume,

Good that you moderated that.

I wouldn't be so harsh,
Inline is a very nice module to use.

Not localizing $_ is an easy mistake to make 
since it is always in main:: as opposed to all
normal variables used inside a package.
And the problems didn't surface until we started 
to do pretty extreme things with Inline::C

Hopefully it will be fixed in 0.45, 'til then
we have the patch. 

FYI,
I narrowed the offending lines down by using a
private copy of Inline and good old printf-debugging.
Debuggers are for whimps :-)

/göran


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com> writes:
>
> > Now, Inline programmers don't know that $_ must *never* be set
> > without localizing it? :-(.
> >
> > Cool!
>
> That "cool" was not understandable enough: I meant that I was
> real happy that Goran fixed the problem - not wanted to be
> ironical on Inline programmers (even if that's honestly a pretty
> dumb error).