SPUG: Something to loose sleep over

[Colin Meyer]

David,

I tried your code, and got the following results, which is what I expected:

ARRAY(0x8102b84) B C,
ARRAY(0x8102bd8) E F,
ARRAY(0x8102c2c) Y Z,

How about posting some more code that produces the confusing results?  I suspect that you excerpted a little too tightly and cut out the bit that was actually causing the problem.

I tried your code under both perl5.00503 and perl5.6.0 and got the same results.

-C.

p.s. I added a double quote mark in your print line:
        print "@_,\n";


On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:19:50AM -0800, David Waring wrote:
> Warning this is a demonstration of a bug that only appears in certain 
> installations of Perl. It is a weird bug and I am really pointing it 
> out as a topic of conversation. Ignore this if you are not interested 
> in really yucky stuff.
> 
> .....
> # call a subroutine several times with different parameters
> 
> asubroutine(\@A,"B","C");
> asubroutine(\@D,"E","F");
> asubroutine(\@X,"Y","Z");
> 
> 
> sub asubroutine{
> 	print @_,\n";
> 	$x= shift @_;
> 	$y= shift @_;
> 	$z= shift @_;
> }
> 
> RESULTS
> ABC
> ABC
> ABC

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