SPUG: refs to substrings contain lvalues

[Aaron W. West]

oops, I did a copy-and-paste thing...adding to my code and output in the
email instead of copying it all over again.

I'd be inclined to let someone more concerned about it than I submit a
perlbug. It's in Data::Dumper, and that's not core perl, is it?

As you can see this does not cause the program to die:

$ perl -le '$x="stargazing";
$y=\substr($x,0,4);
print $y;
$$y="sun";
print $x;
print $$y;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($y); print "done"'

Output:
LVALUE(0x10101570)
sungazing
sung
cannot handle ref type 9 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/cygwin/Data/Dumper.pm
line 158.
$VAR1 = ;

done

Okay, I reported a bug to Data::Dumper, classified as "unimportant".

Ticket 7190 created in queue 'Data-Dumper'.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Dyck" <david.dyck at fluke.com>
..
 Perhaps it's the missing semi-colon after the print $$y    :-)

Did you submit a perlbug on it yet?