
While trying to fix a problem for David Fetter, I found this rather 
obscure plperl bug. It occurs, I think, in these 2 lines in 
plperl.c::plperl_get_elem():

    if (hv_exists_ent(hash, eval_pv(key, TRUE), FALSE))
        svp = hv_fetch(hash, key, strlen(key), FALSE);

This works except where key is the name of a perl builtin function, when 
it comprehensively breaks, because instead of treating it as a string 
perl will return the value of the function from eval_pv(). I hope to 
have a solution soon, but meanwhile it needs to go on the open items list.

cheers

andrew

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:46:54 -0400
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
obscure plperl bug