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

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

goran kirra net writes:

> 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

Well - we're not going to launch a perl rage war are we? :) -
localizing $_ appears to me a *very* bad idea in all
circumstances, because $_ is so widely used everywhere. If you
set $_ in any subroutine, if you later call this subroutine from
a foreach, a map, anything, you'll be bitten hard. And this one
will be very tough to track down, especially when in a module
like Inline :).
 
> Hopefully it will be fixed in 0.45, 'til then
> we have the patch. 

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

Congratulations. This one was really not a piece of cake!

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/