SPUG: perl's sticky lvalue bug

Doug Beaver dougb at scalar.org
Tue Aug 1 09:39:53 CDT 2000


On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:20:44AM -0700, Mathew Mills wrote:

> I recently came across a nasty little problem.  I found a web page
> that helped me solve the problem, explaining the cause was the "sticky
> lvalue" bug in perl.  Does anyone know what bug/behavior this might
> refer to?  There were no details given...

Can you give a short code example that illustrates the problem?

Doug

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