SPUG: Bizarre copy of an ARRAY

[Richard Anderson]

I believe the code that throws the error is using something incorrectly in a
list context.  Here's an example from the perl5-porters at perl.org list:

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> for (1..4) {
>    push @a, $_, last if $_ == 3;
> }
> print "@a\n";
> __END__
> Bizarre copy of ARRAY in last at - line 1.
>
> The behavior is the same in Perl 5.005_04, 5.005_03, and 5.6.0.  Of course
> the user is wrong but why miss an opportunity to tell them so in more
> florid terms? :-)

It fails back to at least 5.002.   But it works in Perl4 if you add
brackets to the push.   :-)

And it's not clear in what sense that's "wrong".   It certainly shouldn't
attract a fatal error, tho' it would be a candidate for the proposed
new warning "next/last/return/ ... used where value wanted".

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What is the code at Heavy.pm line 79?

Cheers,
Richard
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To: <gardner at cardomain.com>; <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: SPUG: Bizarre copy of an ARRAY


> > Bizarre copy of ARRAY in aassign at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp/Heavy.pm
line
> 79.
>
> > What? This is a bizarre error message. Any ideas on what this could mean
> (or why it is showing up?)
>
> > Running in mod_perl, using (as you can see) 5.6.0.
>
> I seem to recall some seeing a discussion somewhere. You might
> want to try a search of Googol or p5p archives.
>
> hope this may help,
> --
> Charles DeRykus
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