On Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 11:48 PM, "Uri Guttman" wrote...
> >>> Here is line 1085:
> >>> foreach my $type qw(dependson blocked) {
> >>> my @bug_ids = split(/[\s,]+/, $deps_in{$type});
> >> put parens around the qw(). it used to be allowed as the () in the for
> >> loop but not anymore.
> > Thanks.
> i actually ran into a bug with a change in qw() that may be the cause of
> this. it used to be that qw was a runtime thing and was compiled into a
> split that returns scalars which were read/write. a perl version changed
> qw to be a compile time thing that made a list of read only strings. the
> code i was working with assumed the results of the qw were read/write
> and crashed when the new version of perl came out. this may also have
> been the change you see there. but maybe not. yours is a syntax change
> that allowed qw() to be the parens part of for.
Don't forget this is 2007 perl code. So...
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